Stay the course

By Creature

The president can have as many photo-ops as he likes. The Congress can have as many sham debates as they like. But all the posturing in the world will not end this:

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A series of bomb and mortar attacks killed at least 31 people in and near Baghdad on Saturday in violence that showed no sign of easing despite a security crackdown against al Qaeda in the Iraqi capital.

The attacks, a day after a suicide bomber killed 10 people in a Baghdad Shi'ite mosque, followed a vow by al Qaeda's new leader in Iraq to avenge the death of his predecessor Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed in a U.S. air strike on June 7.

All this death, and I haven't even mentioned the two U.S. soldiers missing in action since Friday.

U.S. military helicopters and divers searched for two U.S. soldiers missing after an attack on Friday in which one American soldier was killed in the insurgent bastion of Yusufiya in the "Triangle of Death" south of Baghdad.

Death, death, and more death. Stay the course, sure that's a plan.

Update: Waveflux make a violent list.

(Cross-posted at State of the Day.)