Iraq's "insurgents" continue to win the hearts and minds of the locals:

BAGHDAD — At least 106 were killed and 133 wounded early today when an apparent suicide car bomber attacked a group of men in the city of Hilla lining up for medical examinations needed to join Iraqi security forces, police said.

It was by far the bloodiest attack since the Jan. 30 election and one of the worst since the insurgency began in the summer of 2003, following the U.S.-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

The blast occurred outside a medical clinic near the center of Hilla, 60 miles south of Baghdad, and caused now familiar scenes of carnage and havoc. Ambulance workers rushed to the bloody scene and extracted the wounded from piles of dead and wounded and scattered body parts.

The mass murder of men trying to help their country is an act of desperation byh vicious brutes, not a signal of impending victory for a popular front.