Meanwhile, In Iraq....

Have you lost track of our tremendous successes in Iraq lately? Between the "Crisis in the Middle East" (CNN is afraid to call it a war), the latest terrorist strike scam, JonBenet Ramsey and the baseball races Iraq got lost somehow. Some are already calling it the forgotten war. Well, we haven't forgotten. The violence rages. It actually increased because of the Israeli/Lebanese war. A good website for keeping up with the daily violence is the blog Today In Iraq. I warn the constant cataloguing of terror, violence, murder and civil war can be very disheartening. Especially so if you've been buying into the argument that things are going well. Just skim down some of the list of today's bad news:

Baghdad:

Nine corpses were discovered yesterday in Baghdad, four in the neighborhood of Karkh on the west side of the capital, and five in Rusafa, a neighborhood in the east. All the victims had been shot in the head, according to Iraqi police sources.

A bomb hidden in a bag exploded on a street in Tayaran Square in central Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding nine.

An engineer was shot dead while he was in his car in Baghdad.

Eight people were injured - some critically - when a petrol tanker exploded near a filling station in the north of the Iraqi capital.

The body of an employee in the Shi'ite Endowment, a religious foundation that cares for mosques, was found in the southern Saidiya district of Baghdad.

Baqubah:

Gunmen killed a police major and seriously wounded his driver as he was heading home in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of the capital.

Hilla:

The body of a man with gunshot wounds to the head was found near Hilla, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad. He had been shot in the head.


It goes on and on, every day.