Rumsfeld in Baghdad on surprise visit
As if the Iraqis didn't have enough problems to contend with, now they have been lumbered with a visit from Donald Rumsfeld.
Not content with ballsing up their lives from the other side of the planet, Rummy flew in to witness how the carnage was progressing with his own two eyes.
Here's a short list of what he could be expected to see if he ever ventures beyond the Green Zone:
The Iraqi capital's plague of violence continued Tuesday with at least three killings, including that of a judge, authorities said.
Ibrahim Malik al-Hindawi, chief judge of Karkh Civil Court, was killed by gunfire from another vehicle as he drove through western Baghdad's Amriya neighborhood.
Elsewhere in the city, a civilian was killed and four others injured when a minibus exploded in the Sadr City area.
In another bombing, two police were injured on patrol when a car bomb went off near Yarmouk Hospital, police said.
Earlier Tuesday, a pair of car bombs exploded, killing at least one person and wounding six others, police said.
Later Tuesday, gunmen kidnapped an engineer working at a power station in eastern Baghdad.
And two days after 15 people were found dead of gunshots in the capital, two more bodies were discovered Tuesday afternoon in southern Baghdad. The latest had been shot in the head and could not be immediately identified by police. It was not known when they died.
Police said the bodies of 15 men found Sunday are believed to be those of Sunni Muslims. The men reportedly were heading to Anbar province to seek work with Iraqi security forces, police said.
The victims, whose bodies were discovered in two vehicles in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib section, all appeared to have died of gunshots.
Widespread killings that witnesses describe as sectarian in nature have raised fears that Iraq could descend into civil war.
Under Saddam Hussein, the minority Sunni Muslims wielded power, often through violence against Shiites and Kurds. In the current government, the Sunnis have a minority voice, and many officials think disaffected Sunnis are largely fueling the insurgency.
On Monday, at least eight people died and 90 others were injured in eight bombings across the Iraqi capital, authorities said.
No doubt Rummy would view all of the above and say, "Freedom's messy", board his plane and fly home satisfied that the generals have got it wrong. There's no need to consider resignation when the war plan is going so swimmingly.
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