Just Another Day

Today's news from the "still winnable" war:

A man wearing a belt packed with explosives blew himself up in a restaurant at an Iraqi National Guard base north of Baghdad today, killing at least 23 Iraqi soldiers and wounding 28, officials said. In the capital, two separate attacks left at least nine people dead...

In the blast at the military post today, the bomber, wearing an Iraqi National Guard uniform, walked into the restaurant at lunchtime at the Khalis base, northwest of Baquba, police and Interior Ministry officials said. The authorities were investigating how the attacker had managed to pass through security checks, Lt. Col. Mehdi al-Ubaidi of the Khalis police said. Wounded soldiers were taken to hospitals in Khalis and Baquba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, he added.

Gee...maybe he passed through security checks because 1) he was in a uniform, and 2) because the New,Improved, and Now-Only-Dedicated-to-Good-Things Iraqi Army is THOROUGHLY INFILTRATED by insurgents...some of whom might have been manning said checkpoints.

Geez. Neo-Con idiocy knows no bounds.