So this is what the surge in Baghdad has wrought:

Angry victims of a bombing in Karbala turn on the government By Hussam Ali and Leila Fadel

McClatchy Newspapers KARBALA, Iraq - Two months into the U.S.-led Baghdad Security Plan, at least 289 people were killed and injured across Iraq on Saturday, including 36 dead in a car bomb attack in the holy Shiite city of Karbala. The carnage of a crowd teeming with women and children set off an angry mob of hundreds against the governor and police. ...Bodies littered the street and body parts were found as far as 160 yards from the site of the explosion. Three buses of passengers were charred and storefronts lay in shambles. ...As police and ambulances approached to carry away victims, angry residents shot at them, witnesses said. The police responded, firing bullets into the air to dissipate the angry crowd. As the bullets rained down, a child and elderly man were killed, witnesses said. A man screamed, "They added new victims and don't care about our losses. It's enough."

Damn right, it’s enough. It’s way, way, way beyond enough. And why is this happening now?

Aqeel al-Khazaali, the governor of Karbala, blamed the Baghdad Security Plan for the attack inside the relatively safe southern city. Karbala is about 50 miles south of Baghdad. "The Baghdad crackdown and the tribes in Ramadi are forcing the terrorists to leave their cities," he said. "Now Karbala is under fire from terrorists, and the central government has to take the necessary steps to help us to protect the holy city."

But things in Baghdad itself are not all chocolate and flowers either:

In Baghdad, the city was alive with mortar rounds, assassinations, gunfights and roadside bombs. At least 20 corpses, telling of sectarian violence, were reported. In the central city a car bomb detonated near Jadriyah bridge, a main thoroughfare, killing 8 and wounding 11. Also Saturday the Islamic State of Iraq, a Sunni insurgent umbrella group dominated by al-Qaida, claimed it had kidnapped 20 Ministry of Interior employees in northeast Baghdad. A picture was posted with uniformed men in blindfolds.

There’s more – regrettably much more, in this coverage from McClatchy – about standoffs between al-Sadr’s group and the Iraqi Army, and about how elected Iraqi legislators are coming to question the parliament’s legitimacy after last week’s bombing of its headquarters in the Green Zone, and how parents are grieving and screaming and trying to find their children’s body parts in the streets.

But there’s nothing much to add beyond that Iraqi’s stunned comment: It’s enough.