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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

While the media are obsessed with Jeremiah Wright...
Posted by Jill | 7:01 AM
...and John McCain says we won't leave Iraq until we "win", but he hasn't a clue what "winning" looks like, this has been the bloodiest month for Americans in Iraq in seven months:

The killings of three U.S. soldiers in separate attacks in Baghdad pushed the American death toll for April up to 47, making it the deadliest month since September.

One soldier died when his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb. The other died of wounds sustained when he was attacked by small-arms fire, the military said Wednesday. Both incidents occurred Tuesday in northwestern Baghdad.

A third soldier died in a roadside bombing Tuesday night in the east of the capital, the military said.

The statement did not give a more specific location. But the eastern half of Baghdad includes embattled Sadr City and other neighborhoods that have been the focus of intense combat between Shiite militants and U.S.-Iraqi troops for more than a month.

In all, at least 4,059 members of the U.S. military have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.


John McCain likes to talk about a permanent presence in Iraq as taking the same form as our presence in Germany or Korea -- one in which American soldiers are not involved in active combat because the governments of those countries don't object to us being there. But in Iraq, the government is perceived as a U.S. puppet and isn't actually running things. So on what basis does he think this utopia is going to occur? By clapping our hands really, really hard and saying "I DO believe in fairies. I DO I DO I DO!"?

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