Today in Iraq: 7 American soldiers killed, at least 40 wounded (77% of all soldiers killed in Iraq have died since Bush 'declared' an 'end to significant hostilities').

IRAQ: A total waste and embarassment.  It is not the purported front of 'the war on terror' that the hip-hype politicians make it out to be.  It is a brackish backwater: a failure of intelligence, a failure of leading vision, and a poignant indicator that we haven't even yet properly fathomed how to deal with the true threat of terror now looming ever larger.  I've decided I'm going to buy myself a weapon.  Why? Because the government doesn't seem to have even a clue about the course of breakout terror.  So, when I procure it, I shall place my anti-terrorist weapon under my pillow, dream lucidly upon the silver bullet in its chamber, and psychically target the dracularized demon of nightmare muslimized destruction that's threatening to visit a theater near me and you soon.