Dick Cheney and
John McCain are both in Iraq today, and, as Iraqis are prone to do, they have been greeted with parades and flowers and general jubilation in the streets. No, just kidding.
But a sucide bomber
did set off a bomb in a crowded market in Karbala killing 42 people, the biggest attack in that city in more than a year. That
does sound like the "phenomenal" progress that
Cheney described earlier this morning in a meeting with Iraqi security officials.
Also, further up north, two American soldiers died when a roadside bomb detonated near their humvee. The American death toll in Iraq is around 3990 with more than 29,000 wounded. The Iraqi toll, almost uncountable, is more than a million killed when counting both combatants and civilians.
This has been a brutal five years and, if
McCain is elected, there are still 100 more to come.
