Time to Make the Doughnuts Declare 'Mission Accomplished'

Not gonna happen...

I feel like I've heard this before, and I'm pretty sure I've heard it every summer since the war began in 2003, namely, that the violence might finally be abating...

Of course, the fact that it's the beginning of summer doesn't seem to register.

Nor does the fact that huge swaths of Iraq have been sealed away behind 25 foot high blast walls, a particularly ugly program of segregation. Nor does the fact that some four million Iraqis are now refugees...

Oh, and what counts as "good news" is a monthly death count of 532 Iraqis...and 19 Americans (15 in combat, i.e., one death every other day). Just makes you want to celebrate, don't it.

Or throw up.