Things couldn't be better in Iraq, really.
Topic: Iraq

Despite what you see in the news everyday, things are going swimmingly in Iraq. All that daily violence over there is the media's fault. Like W. said the other day, the insurgents are "capable of blowing up innocent life so it ends up on your TV show." That doesn't explain, though, the dozens of bodies that keep popping up everyday with their hands tied behind their backs with bullets in the back of their heads. Something tells me these deaths aren't the work of al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Yesterday's death total, reported by the pliable media lackeys from AP, was 58 killed by "execution-style slayings, bombings and gun battles." For the third day running insurgents attacked a police facility, this time in the Karradah district which killed 10 civilians and 15 policemen. This follows major insurgent attacks on a police station in Salman Pak on Wednesday and the big one in Muqdadiya on Tuesday that killed 18 policemen and freed 33 prisoners. Now before you get the idea that all this violence is widespread and the whole country is going up in flames, the U.S. military spokesman, Maj. Rick Lynch, would like to put all of us straight. "There is not widespread violence across Iraq. There is not." The good news he wants you to know is that, "Seventy-five percent of the attacks still take place in Baghdad, Anbar or Salaheddin." Of course, two-thirds of the country is either Kurdish ruled in the north or under the de-facto rule of the Badr brigade and the Mahdi army in the south. The rest of the country that isn't desert wasteland is where all the trouble is.

Remember, Salaheddin, where Sammara is, and Anbar, where Fallujah and Tal Afar are, are the big time military success stories of the war. So it’s just a matter of time before it’s all over, over there. Just the other day General Peter Pace said things were "going very well" in Iraq, so who are you going to believe, the media or the military?

Maj. Lynch is not all Pollyanna about what's going on over there, though, there's still some hard work to be done and he admits that there has been a "spike in ethnic-sectarian incidents." Seventy-five percent more civilian deaths occurred between the week of March 11 through the 17th and in Baghdad alone there has been 58 attacks killing 134 Iraqis, but still the enemy is unable to mount significant attacks in Baghdad because of all the extra security that those crack Iraqi security unit that will be taking over from us any minute now. Well, except for the four car bombings yesterday, naturally.

But overall, we should all be optimistic like W. is that a future president will have to dig us out of this mess he's gotten us into.