WTF Is It Now?!?

Things are goin' great!
The Bushies continue to make progress.

'"We won't run," Bush said, cavalierly dismissing the lives of the young soldiers mired in his folly. This amounts to using our young men and women as bait and assumes there are a finite number of fanatics who can be dispensed with once and for all.' - - Robert Scheer.

Iraqi insurgents killed an American soldier and wounded two others in a roadside bombing in Baghdad on Tuesday, and Spain said it was withdrawing much of its diplomatic staff from Iraq for security reasons, the third coalition country to do so in the past two weeks amid mounting violence.

Another soldier was killed Monday and one other wounded when their vehicle struck a land mine in Tikrit.

The deaths brought the number of American soldiers killed in Iraq in November to 23

In the northern city of Mosul, insurgents using small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades Tuesday attacked a hotel housing American troops but caused no casualties, the military said. Three of the grenades hit the building and two others landed in the compound.

A police station in Mosul was also struck overnight by a rocket-propelled grenade, the military said Tuesday. There were no casualties.

Insurgents ambushed a U.S. patrol Tuesday with RPGs in the city of Khaldiyah, located west of Baghdad in the volatile "Sunni Triangle," witnesses said. There were no reports of casualties.