WTF Is It Now?!?

Iraqi mob beats bodies of slain U.S. soldiers
Three American troopers killed in attacks

"Despite the ongoing violence, U.S. officials insisted the occupation was going well."
For God's sake...

MOSUL, Iraq - Iraqis dragged two American soldiers from a wrecked vehicle, pummelled them with concrete blocks and slit their throats today, witnesses said, describing a burst of savagery in a city once safe for Americans.

Another soldier was killed by a bomb and a US-allied police chief was assassinated.

The US-led coalition also said it grounded commercial flights after the military confirmed that a missile struck a DHL cargo plane that landed Saturday at Baghdad International Airport with its wing aflame. Nevertheless, American officers insisted they were making progress in bringing stability to Iraq.


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"It's an incredible error"
After gloating that thanks to the much-loved coalition so many schools have reopened in Iraq, Paul Bremer last week fired 28,000 Iraqi teachers as political punishment for their former membership in the Baath Party, helping to fuel anti-U.S. resistance.

"It's a piece of real stupidity on the part of the neocons to try and equate the Baath Party with the Nazis," said former CIA official Larry Johnson. "You have to make a choice: Either you are going to deal with Iraqis who are capable of rebuilding and running the country or you're going to turn Iraq over to those who can't."

Facing a spreading insurgency, this was "not the time to turn out into the street more recruits for the anti-U.S. insurgency," Johnson said.

"All we have done is to have alienated one of the most politically important portions of the Iraqi population," an administration official said. "What a bunch of incompetent fucktards. Christ."