Makin' progress

We are so kicking ass. Two suicide bomb blasts killed at least 24 people and wounded dozens more in Baghdad Monday, despite increased security across the capital for a visit by Iraq's new BFF, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadahmadahmajad.

No, we really are making progress!
News: Head of state walks around Baghdad as if it were an Indiana-like market.
Not news: it wasn't our head, Scaredy McYellowpants.

It's a damning indication of how poorly things have gone for the United States during its five-year misadventure in Iraq that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can drive in broad daylight though this war-ravaged city and spend the night at the presidential palace, but America's manly preznit George W. Bush can't.

Despite the presence of 157,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, the visit left the impression that Iran's President now feels more comfortable in Baghdad than his U.S. counterpart does.

Unlike Mr. Bush's cloak-and-dagger visits here — fly-in trips to heavily guarded U.S. military bases that only last a few hours, often with no advance notice given to even the Iraqi government — Mr. Ahmadinejad's schedule was announced days earlier.

Brave Sir Bunnypants, CommanderGuy, just keeps looking better and better.

Meanwhile, in Bushie's other clusterfuck, a suicide bomber attacked a US base in Afghanistan, blowing the bejeebus out of it and wounding three soldiers.