It's a very bad situation getting worse every day:
Iraqi authorities discovered at least 87 corpses - men shot to death execution-style - as Iraq edged closer to open civil warfare. Twenty-nine of the bodies, dressed only in underwear, were dug out of a single grave Tuesday in a Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad.So much for that speech from Bush yesterday. The New York Times basically called what's going on a "civil war":
The wave of dirty killings seems to undermine the American government's insistence that Iraqi security forces can deliver the rule of law. Less than a month after an assault on a Shiite shrine in Samarra nearly plunged the country into civil war, the blood continues to flow, just as freely. The majority of the killings seem to have happened in the same areas where Shiite militiamen rampaged after the shrine attack, implying that no one is able — or willing — to stop them.According to the Times, Rumsfeld, like his boss, his still optimistic about Iraq:
Mr. Rumsfeld said the Iraqi people are better off without Saddam Hussein, that most of them support the American-led campaign, and that the United States is safer now that the old Baghdad regime is gone. "The sacrifices of today will over time prove the worth of this cause," Mr. Rumsfeld said.No credibility whatsover. None.
