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Sunday August 10th, 2003

As of Friday, Aug. 8, 257 U.S. soldiers had died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq, according to the military.

On the campus of Baghdad University, 10 Iraqis and two US soldiers were wounded in a grenade blast targeting American forces beside an Islamic college, the sources said… Meanwhile, CIA Director George Tenet defended a controversial intelligence document prepared under his supervision which provided some of the basis for the US-led invasion of Iraq, in a statement in Sunday's Washington Post.

"Growing criminality is further compounding the insecurity felt by the Afghan population; there are numerous examples of robberies, thefts and assaults even in (supposedly) one of the most secure regions, Herat."

So monumental has the mismanagement of post-Iraq been that essential services and law and order are still not back to pre-war levels. Looting has given way to carjacking and kidnapping.

For Bush–after 9/11–power means simply command, not responsibility for the consequences of his actions.

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