WTF Is It Now?!?

'Things are goin' great!'
"Every place in Baghdad is dangerous now that the Americans are here."

Paul Wolfowitz celebrates Ramadan by getting bombed.
Sun Oct 26 - The U.S. occupation authority retreated from its headquarters Sunday after Iraqi insurgents attacked the heavily guarded hotel with a missile barrage that killed an American colonel, wounded 18 other people and sent visiting deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz scurrying for safety.

More than 15 hours after the rocket fire, two explosions went off in the same downtown area. An Iraqi policeman said an assailant fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a U.S. convoy next to the al-Mansour Hotel. There were no casualties.

Monday October 27 - Three American soldiers were killed and four wounded in two separate attacks in Iraq, the U.S. military said Monday.

Two soldiers were killed and two others wounded Sunday in Baghdad after their patrol was targeted by a roadside bomb. In Abu Ghraib, on the western edge of Baghdad, one soldier was killed and two wounded Sunday after an attack on their Military Police unit.

Monday October 27 - Up to 18 people were feared dead today after bombers targeted the Baghdad headquarters of the International Red Cross, and in attacks on four police stations, another 27 people were killed in a spree of destruction that terrorized the Iraqi capital .

Cover story, this week's Newsweek: 'Bush's $87 billion mess - waste, chaos, and cronyism: the real cost of rebuilding Iraq.'