Billmon: Back to Iraq

It hasn't been getting much attention in the post-Katrina era, but there's still a war going on in Iraq, and the Cheney administration is still losing it.

I'm as guilty as anybody of letting that grim fact slide out of my field of vision -- which still leaves me one up on Shrub, since I can at least pay attention to one disaster at a time.

The death toll over the past week in Iraq has been more than 250; over the past three weeks, more than a thousand, including the horrible crowd control disaster on the Tigris bridge two days after Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. That's a third of a 9/11 in less than a month. That flypaper for terrorists the hawks are always talking about is getting awfully clogged with the dead bodies of innocent civilians.