Thursday, March 27, 2008

Bad News in Iraq, and at the Pump


Photo from source, Times Online

After all the rosy talk of "success" in Iraq, both by The Commander Guy and elsewhere, feels a little hollow with stuff like this going on. I'm so tired of happy talk, and the efforts of this administration to create its own reality. Enough.

[Excerpt]

Areas of Baghdad fall to militias as Iraqi Army falters in Basra

Iraq’s Prime Minister was staring into the abyss today after his operation to crush militia strongholds in Basra stalled, members of his own security forces defected and district after district of his own capital fell to Shia militia gunmen.

With the threat of a civil war looming in the south, Nouri al-Maliki’s police chief in Basra narrowly escaped assassination in the crucial port city, while in Baghdad, the spokesman for the Iraqi side of the US military surge was kidnapped by gunmen and his house burnt to the ground. . .

Read more at: Times Online

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