This just in, as they say in broadcastonics:
Five American soldiers were killed and three wounded Monday when a suicide bomber walked up to their patrol on a crowded shopping street in central Baghdad and blew himself up, the military and Iraqi police said.
That's central Baghdad, the place that the much-heralded Surge has been centered in.
I hate to bust in on the tit-for-tat vitriol fest that the Democratic primary has become here on Daily Kos, but does anyone remember the 2006 election where we put Democratic majorities into both houses to end the damn war?
As I diaried here recently, the Democratic leadership has said, flat out, that they aren't going to do anything this year to try and end the slow-motion trainwreck that is the occupation of Iraq. As the 4000th troop depths lurches ever closer, a matter of weeks now, as the death and devastation there continue to add new charges to the war-crimes tribunal Bush & Co. will unfortunately probably never face, as the war prepares to enter its sixth year, I want to highlight the watchword of the Iraq Moratorium:
It's got to stop! We've got to stop it!
And I want to call on everyone reading this to take some steps, on Moratorium Day #7, March 21, or during other protests slated for the 5th anniversary of the start of the war from the 13th to the 23rd, or, hey, how about today? As long as we do nothing, this will continue.