BUSH: I think he went on to say we're winning, if I recall.

Here's victory, Bush-style:

At least 24 people, including civilians and Iraqi forces, were killed and up to 94 people were wounded in nine car bombs in the Baghdad area and in two bombings near the southern city of Basra today, a day after the first fully and freely elected government in Iraq's history was approved.

Three car bombs exploded in Al-Madain, killing nine people; two car bombs were detonated in the Al-Ghadeer area of Baghdad, killing one, and in Al-Adhamiya neighborhood 13 people were killed in four car bombs, according to the Interior Ministry. Of the dead, seven were civilians and the rest of the casualties were Iraqi forces, the ministry said.

In addition, two improvised bombs were detonated today in Al-Fayha'a near the southern Iraqi city of Basra, killing one border guard and wounding another.

The attacks suggested that fighters in Iraq were keeping up the momentum of an undiminished insurgency and sent a bloody reminder to the new government of the array of challenges it must tackle when it assumes power next week. In addition to fighting the insurgency, the new government must work to rebuild Iraqi cities and guide the effort to write a new constitution.


"Smells like--victory. Someday this war's gonna end."

And when it ends, Iraq will still have all that oil underground--but from the looks of it, above ground it'll be a wasteland. Well, let's be real: the wingnuts don't give a shit about the Iraqi people anyway.