Earlier today, Dick Cheney called the war in Iraq a:
...successful endeavor ... and it has been well worth the effort.
Today in Iraq:
- Five persons were killed and 12 others injured when mortar shells hit a football play ground in eastern Baghdad...
- A female suicide bomber attacked a group of Shiite worshippers near a mosque in Karbala on Monday, killing at least 39 people and wounding 51...
- A roadside bomb killed two U.S. soldiers when it struck their vehicle in a district north of Baghdad...
- A minibus packed with explosives killed three people and wounded eight others in Karrada district...
- A roadside bomb killed one policeman and wounded another as they patrolled Mansour district in western Baghdad...
- Three bodies of U.S.-backed neighbourhood police were found two days after they were kidnapped in the town of Udhaim...
- ...police said they found the bodies of three members of a U.S.-allied group fighting al-Qaida in Udaim...
- A roadside bomb targeting a U.S. convoy injured four civilians in Baghdad...
Said Cheney:
It would be a mistake now to be so eager to draw down the force that we risk putting the outcome in jeopardy.
Well sure, we wouldn't want to mess with all of this success.
And John W. McCain