WTF Is It Now?!?

Operation qWagmire update
No sign of let-up in a guerrilla campaign against U.S. occupation forces.
"Bring 'em on!"

U.S. soldiers wounded in separate blasts
Tuesday, July 8, 2003; KHAN DHARI, Iraq (link): Iraq Attacks Wound Seven U.S. Soldiers - A blistering series of attacks, coming nearly hourly, wounded seven U.S. soldiers in Iraq on Tuesday, and the United States offered a $2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest of anyone who kills a coalition soldier or Iraqi policeman.

73 U.S. soldiers have been killed since serial liar/war deserter pReznit Privilege dressed up in his Top Goon costume and declared combat over in Iraq on May 1.

Daily guerrilla attacks frustrates, frightens US troops
Attackers in Baghdad using cover of crowds, buildings.

From the Washington Post: The daily attacks that use the urban landscape for concealment and flight have frustrated and frightened U.S. forces in Baghdad. "Sure, we have our flak jackets and our helmets -- and we're always on the lookout for suspicious activity. But the depressing thing is that there's not a whole lot we really can do about those guys who are determined to try to kill us."

"We're hit more now that the war is pretty much over," said Spec. Justin Keeney, 22, of Oregon City, Ore.

Iraq Oil export pipeline hit by bombing.
Dick Cheney's Iraq's northern export pipeline via Turkey was damaged by a new sabotage blast over the weekend in another setback for Baghdad's battered oil sector, a senior Iraqi oil ministry official said on Tuesday. The official, who asked not to be named, told Reuters Iraq was also facing what he called widespread "economic sabotage" along a pipeline from Iraq's southern oilfields.

Problems, problems.
"It'll be a cakewalk!" Patchy public services, continuing guerrilla attacks on coalition troops, widespread criminality, confusion over oil revenues and the financing of reconstruction, and still no sign of a home-grown government - just some of the problems facing Iraq’s interim leaders. Did the misadministration spend too much time thinking about how to secure the oilfields military victory, and too little working out what to do with the country once Saddam Hussein had been removed? Duh.