Worse Than My Apartment

Rising Hegemon focused on one part of an article that's been linked to quite a bit lately, Rod Nordland's parting glance at Baghdad:

The four-square-mile Green Zone, the one place in Baghdad where foreigners are reasonably safe, could be a showcase of American values and abilities. Instead the American enclave is a trash-strewn wasteland of Mad Max-style fortifications. The traffic lights don't work because no one has bothered to fix them. The garbage rarely gets collected. Some of the worst ambassadors in U.S. history are the GIs at the Green Zone's checkpoints. They've repeatedly punched Iraqi ministers, accidentally shot at visiting dignitaries and behave (even on good days) with all the courtesy of nightclub bouncers—to Americans and Iraqis alike...

That one paragraph probably explains, as much as anything, Operation-Dump-The-Bucket- of-Shit-on-Us-RIGHT-NOW.

And I wonder what sort of creative lies the wingnuts will come up with to lay blame on liberals...