Today comes news of the "worst-ever breach of security in the heavily guarded Green Zone, as a suicide bomber penetrated into the Iraqi parliament and detonated, killing at least 8 people and wounding at least 23 others. The Washington Post quotes Sunni legislator Saleh al-Mutlaq as saying:
The security plan is dead. If they are able to reach inside the parliament, then we should not talk about the security plan anymore.
Meanwhile, "a truck bomb destroyed a bridge over the Tigris River, killing at least one person and severing a link between the now Shiite-dominant eastern side of Baghdad with the Sunni-dominant west."
Wow, this Bush "surge" is working out really well. I'm sure that extending our troops' stays in Iraq for another few months will fix things, though. Not! Oh, and by the way, who were the geniuses who advised John McCain to hitch his entire candidacy to the Iraq War? And why did McCain agree to do so? Let's face it, the Iraq situation is FUBAR, as they say in the military, and at this point there's not much more we can accomplish. Bring 'em home.
BEIRUT, April 13 (Reuters) - A growing exodus of Iraqis fleeing bloodshed has imposed severe strains on Syria, Jordan and other nearby countries, which need more help to cope with the burden, a senior United Nations official said.Syria alone has taken in an estimated 1.2 million Iraqis escaping the chaos that has engulfed their homeland since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Up to 800,000 more are in Jordan.
This is the kind of news our right-wingers don't read, as they're glued to NewsBusters and Fox.