Iraq is experiencing continued death and destruction with no end is sight...and no political solution on the horizon:
Car bombings and mortar attacks rocked a market in a Shiite slum in Baghdad Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding 84, police said.Sounds chaotic. But have no fear, Bush has a strategy. Yes, today we learned that Bush has a
The violence came as Iraqi political leaders said the new parliament will convene Thursday, three days earlier than initially announced, with the U.S. ambassador stepping up efforts to broker the end of a stalemate over the formation of a unity government.
While moving the first session of parliament forward suggested some progress, none of those present suggested any breakthrough had been made in the deadlock over forming a new government comprising Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds, a precondition for U.S. hopes to start withdrawing some forces this summer.
Staff members, many of whom have been with Mr. Bush since he first began running for president in 1999, responded on Friday in a familiar way: To mark the three-year anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, they announced that Mr. Bush would give a new round of speeches, starting Monday at George Washington University.
As ever, there will be no change in policy. Mr. Bush will talk, they said, about new progress in defeating "improvised explosive devices" and argue that the televised pictures of rising casualties and sectarian fighting obscure progress under way.
