WTF Is It Now?!?

Situation deteriorates in Iraq
US intelligence report pessimistic on future of Iraq. 'Pessimistic'?! They're being polite.

'Disaster on an unprecedented scale."

2 Americans and 1 Brit abducted in Iraq.

"The war is lost."
Military experts say they see no exit from the Iraq debacle - and that the war is helping al-Qaida.

TONY JONES: Seeing pictures of that as you speak, Peter, but are you starting to get the sense when you speak to US military officers in Baghdad that they're beginning to despair of ever getting a handle on this?

PETER CAVE: Look, you don't speak to American military officers as much as you used to. They're very fast when they move through town. They don't speak to you. The daily press briefings aren't happening. You know, they have coming under daily attack. I was out at a car bombing where a couple of soldiers were critically injured in a car bomb attack the other day. The Americans are very much under siege.

- from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.