They're building a moat around Baghdad as a last-ditch effort to keep it safe

Good God. They're building trenches around Baghdad to try to stop the out of control violence. Good God. They're building the functional equivalent of a moat around the city and Bush is still telling us things are going great. He just said on TV that "the Baghdad security plan is making progress." Yeah, so much progress you're now building a moat. What a disaster.