Bombing kills 43 in Karbala

The explosion, the deadliest attack in Karbala in nearly a year, overshadowed a Baghdad visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, who met with Iraqi and American leaders and extolled what he described as "phenomenal" security improvements in the country.

http://www.nytimes.com/...

Five years into it.  The Brits and Poland are forgotten.  The US is at the highest troop levels since the invasion.  Last Sunday's NYTimes told of how the oil is being siphoned off, sometimes literally, to fuel insurgents.

BTW: Obama against the war, predicting how it would go wrong. HRC...voted for it, sat by quietly, applauded the surge.  Oh, she says McCain, another war backer, the guy who sees us staying for a hundred years, is more qualified than Obama.