7 MORE U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq yesterday, 7 of them in al Anbar Province……you know….the place Bush flew to……the safe place……the ever peaceful place. This brings the total for the month to 18.

Crime is being blamed for the shortage of doctors in Iraq. It’s reported there are only a third of the doctors needed due to kidnappings and killing of medical professionals.

Military commanders have rejected the call to disband Iraq’s national police force stating it would create serious security vacuums in parts of Iraq.

Who was responsible for disbanding the Iraqi Military back in the day? Bush? Bremer? No it was Rumsfeld and Cheney……and it’s already been proved. End of story.

The Iraqi Red Crescent Organization and the U.N. reported that since the surge in U.S. troops, the number of Iraqis fleeing their homes has soared. There were more civilian deaths this month than in previous months. The ethnic cleansing continues……

Fighting al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) is the last big argument for keeping U.S. troops in the country. But the military’s estimation of the threat is alarmingly wrong, as Andrew Tilghman tells it in the Washington Monthly.

Iraq is working on a plan to privatize the electricity sector. Lord knows electricity would so improve everyday life for them.

A 20-member panel comprised mostly of retired senior military and police officers, said the massive deployment of U.S. forces and sprawl of U.S.-run facilities in and around Baghdad has given Iraqis the impression that Americans are an occupying, permanent force. They recommend U.S. forces in Iraq be reduced significantly.

But hey……according to GW the surge is working and we’re going nowhere. What planet is he on?