Bush to Filipino Hostage: Go F**k Yourself

Reuters reports on the Coalition of it-looks-like-one-less Willing and Team Bush's attempt to keep the Phillipines 51 person troop contingent in Iraq.

Meanwhile, other news organizations are reporting that a Bulgarian hostage has been murdered by militants.

Just when the new, improved, Iraq model 2.0 was, according to The New York Times, flexing its muscles, along comes an unpleasant dose of reality.