Ho hum. Just another day of extreme violence in Iraq in a month of record-setting violence:
Bombings killed at least 68 people in Iraq on Saturday, including one planted on a minibus that exploded in a fish market in a mostly Shiite town south of Baghdad.Let's see, Saddam hasn't run the country since April of 2003. Yet, somehow, the carnage and death -- that was supposed to end when his reign was over -- not only hasn't ended, it's gotten worse.
The attacks came hours after Saddam Hussein was hanged in Baghdad for ordering the killings of 148 Shiites in the city of Dujail in 1982. Despite concerns about a spike in unrest, Saturday's violence was not unusually high and there was no indication it was related to the execution.
The U.S. military also announced the deaths of three Marines and three soldiers, making December the year's deadliest month for U.S. troops in Iraq, with 109 service members killed.
The traditional media is struggling with what pictures to show of dead Saddam. They've been censoring this war from the outset. Bush wants us to see the dead Saddam, but we can't see the caskets of dead Americans. That's what the media should be fighting -- the censorship that prevents Americans from seeing the true costs of Bush's war.
