WTF Is It Now?!?

Changin' the course
As things continue to go remarkably well in Iraq, violence in Baghdad has reached "civil war proportions."

Turning another corner, morgues across a wide sweep of the center of the country are full as Shiite militiamen and death squads range through the region killing Sunnis.

As insurgents in Iraq increase their attacks in order to influence the US mid-term elections, 20 are killed in a bus bombing in Baghdad, and violence across the country claims at least 159.

With the insurgency in its last throes, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a police recruiting center in Baghdad early Sunday, killing at least 35 men waiting to join Iraq's police force, and wounding 56, police said.

Adapting to win, three US troops were reported killed, as were four British service members.

Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, things continue to go swimmingly as insurgent activity increases: "militants now launch more than 600 attacks a month, a rising wave of violence that has resulted in 3,700 deaths in 2006, a bleak new report released Sunday found."

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