The Bushie wingnuts declared "victory" in Iraq not long after President Obama was elected, presumably to deny him that claim later if things went well, or to criticize him if the imaginary "victory" should unravel later. Well, the situation is unraveling. The Anbar Awakening -- the decision by Sunni tribal chiefs to accept U.S. money in exchange for dropping their insurgency -- is starting to fail.
Today, 36 people were killed and 113 injured in a series of bombings in predominantly Shiite areas of Baghdad, the latest in a rash of bombings in and around the Iraqi capital.
Iraq was a conflict that diverted our attention from the 9-11 al Qaeda attackers who still are based in the Afghan/Pakistan frontier. We will pay dearly for that diversion, and have "won" nothing in the bargain.
