Remember the news last week that the insurgency was “fizzling out”? Well that
point seems to now be as invalid as Cheney’s “last throes” comment from last
spring.

Baghdad (Reuters) – Five U.S. soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb
hit their vehicle while on patrol in Baghdad on Thursday, the U.S. military
said.

Another two American soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb near the
southern Iraqi city of Najaf, Iraqi police said.

Police had earlier said that only two civilians were killed in the Najaf
incident.

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If that is not bad enough, it is far worse for the Iraqi citizens:

KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) – Two suicide bombers killed at least 110 people
and wounded more than 200 in the Iraqi cities of Kerbala and Ramadi on
Thursday, the second consecutive day of concerted insurgent attacks.

Another three bombs exploded in Baghdad, two of them detonated by suicide
bombers, and a roadside bomb targeted a U.S convoy near the southern Shi’ite
holy city of Najaf, destroying a Humvee and killing at least two civilians.

Coming a day after 58 people died in a wave of bombings and shootings,
the latest bloodshed appeared certain to ratchet up tension between Sunni
and Shi’ite Muslims after December’s election.

[..]

In all, violence has killed more than 225 people and wounded more than
280 in the five days since the New Year started, a death toll comparable
with some of the nation’s bloodiest weeks since the U.S.-led invasion in
March 2003.

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While Bush is trying to spin some good news his way here he is strongly over
shadowed by the fact that Iraq seems to be going down hill even more. December
15th was our latest, and final “benchmark” in Iraq. That was when the elections
were and now there are no more coming. It is becoming more and more evident
Bush’s plan is a complete failure. Something has to change now.