“Iraq must be a smashing success – and it’s obviously driving the press absolutely crazy – when Bush can hold a presser with Talabani and field only Louisiana disaster relief questions.” – an emailer approvingly cited by Glenn Reynolds yesterday.
“More than 100 people were killed in a string of bombings and ambushes in Iraq today in the worst large scale violence since May and June, and the Al Qaeda group in Iraq said that it was launching a nationwide campaign of suicide bombings in retaliation for an American-Iraqi military offensive against insurgents in the northern city of Tal Afar.” – New York Times, today.
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