For ages now I have been depressed about Iraq, thinking: it couldn't possibly get worse that THIS. And then it does. The decision to go after al Sadr and Fallujah in the same week; fighting near the holy shrines; abu Ghraib; indications that abu Ghraib was not an isolated episode; and now the news that we may have been used by Iran to finally defeat their enemy in the Iran/Iraq war. Once again, I can't see how it could possibly get worse. But I've thought this before, and it always has, so I expect that some horrible and unexpected new revelation will come zinging in from left field and prove me wrong.
So: does anyone have any ideas about what the next unexpected and dreadful development in Iraq will be?