The Bush administration and the increasingly pathetic GOP leadership can complain all they want about the media's lack of coverage of the good the administration says it has brought to Iraq. The media's response is that the situation in Iraq has deteriorated so badly that there is no longer security to allow them to cover the occassional opening of a school or another dozen people's electricity being switched back on (See
HERE.)
And as much as Bush and GOP leaders want to convince America that the security situation is not as bad as the press says it is, there is no denying 40 mutilated bodies lying in the streets in a suburb of the capital.
When there is an iota of real security, people tend to notice 40 mutilated bodies in the street. How can 40 mutilated bodies be brought out into the street without security forces being notified and responding swiftly? Maybe Donald "Please ignore the civil war behind the curtain" Rumsfeld has an answer for that one too?
The day was punctuated by rising sectarian tensions and at least 40 mutilated bodies found in the streets, 30 of them beheaded. (NYT)
The WaPo thinks the 40 mutilated bodies deserves a sentence in its article about the non-civil war in Iraq as well:
Also Sunday, Iraqi forces found 30 headless bodies in an area north of the capital. A health official said the killings appeared to have taken place earlier in the day. (WaPo)
(cross-post at The Next Left)