Disneyland On The Euphrates By: Mark W Adams

Wednesday UPDATE(2): 25 31 37 Iraqis Killed, 15 18 28 Wounded

Contrary to the updated (and updated again) numbers above to the right, and the updated numbers for yesterday, and the day before that.....

Joe Klein: Tonight, ABC news reported that there were no--zero--violent incidents in Baghdad today. But I can't find that fairly amazing story anywhere on the ABC website, or on Iraqslogger. So maybe it didn't happen. But if it did...

What Joe? WHAT? We declare victory because they stopped shooting at us long enough for us to leave? Fire up the Bradlies and head on into Iran? Make casinos out of Saddam's old palaces? The Macarena? Can I buy a vowel?

Okay, let's suppose that we've created an impregnable fortress within Baghdad's city limits and all the bad stuff linked to above happened elsewhere. Let's just act like the 2 killed, 2 wounded in a bombing in the Zaafaraniyah neighborhood and the two civilians injured when they were shot by US soldiers after being stupid enough to get in a car accident in the Wehda neighborhood of Baghdad, are really "outside of " Baghdad -- which is like saying Brooklyn and Queens are outside of New York City, but nevermind. Not counting the four bodies found in various parts of the city proper (who knows when they actually were murdered), it actually was a pretty mild day there by recent standards.

They certainly couldn't have been talking about Tuesday. No way. On top of another four bodies found within the city, a car bomb killed 7 and injured 30, 3 cops were killed and 2 wounded in one drive-by shooting and a 6 streetsweepers were targeted by another, killing one of them, and a roadside bomb got one person more plus 2 injured. 13 were injured and one person killed by shelling and an Interior Minister was kidnapped. And that was just within Baghdad Tuesday.

Jane says, "We’re ruled by moral pygmies." Not only that, but the people paid to report to us what is happening around the world are piss-ant fools.

It's called "Google", Joe. If you want to be more relevant than a computer algorithm, try using those considerable skills your parents sent you to college to acquire. That, or just come out with it and call the lying douche bags at ABC on their bull.