Iraq - string of failures.

Apparently, we haven't been able to keep Baghdad secure. The U.S. Army is now redeploy... um, let me get my doublespeak correct... "repositioning" troops to Baghdad, sacrificing other areas (such as the hotbed that has been Anbar province) to bring a semblance of security back to Baghdad. More Iraqi civilians have died in the past two weeks than have died in the Israel/Lebanon conflict, and the violence only seems to be escalating between the Sunnis and the Shia.

Iraqi civil war, folks. Plenty of people predicted this would happen. Even Iraqi PM al-Maliki admits it is beyond his ability to prevent it, especially since his plan to secure Baghdad has turned out to be a failure. It's too bad for us, and especially OUR TROOPS, that the Bush cabal has repeatedly chosen to ignore any "discouraging" words, at any level, from any source, even from experienced military leaders. The Washington Post's senior Pentagon correspondent, Thomas E. Ricks, has just released a book, "Fiasco," which covers, amongst other things, how poor strategic planning, and the willful ignorance of the Bush administration, has led to conditions in Iraq spiralling further out of control than they necessarily had to.

At some point, our government MUST be held accountable for its poor decisions, lack of foresight, and, again, its willful ignorance at all intervals in its methods and plans.

-R.