News from Iraq

You want the good news or the bad news first?

Actually, there is no good news, so here’s the bad news.

Another one of Saddam’s lawyers has been killed. That makes three so far.

And, from Think Progress, “The two missing U.S. soldiers found yesterday were beheaded and showed signs of being ‘brutally tortured before their death.’ Their remains are being sent to the U.S. for DNA testing, suggesting they ‘had been wounded or mutilated beyond recognition.’”

Masking as good news: “A key Al Qaeda in Iraq leader described as the group's ‘religious emir’ was killed in a U.S. airstrike hours before two American soldiers went missing and in the same area, the military said Tuesday.” Why, in my troops-hating, terrorist-sympathizing, liberal way have I classified that as faux good news? Because I find it difficult to believe that the timing of the death of this “right-hand man of Zarqawi's” (or the latest in an infinite stream of dead #2s), right before two American soldiers who were brutally tortured before they were killed, is a coincidence, which illustrates what a complete clusterfuck this war has become. The more we try to “win” it, the worse it will get for our soldiers.