Mission Accomplished, Part Too

Following up on the last entry, there's this wonderful news that we certainly accomplished so much 4 years ago today....This from the AP (via MSNBC):

Terrorist attacks worldwide shot up 25 percent last year, particularly in Iraq where extremists used chemical weapons and suicide bombers to target crowds, according to a new State Department report.

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In its annual global survey of terrorism to be released Monday, the State Department says about 14,000 attacks took place in 2006, mainly in Iraq and Afghanistan. These strikes claimed more than 20,000 lives — two-thirds in Iraq. That is 3,000 more attacks than in 2005 and 5,800 more deaths.

Altogether, 40 percent more people were killed by increasingly lethal means around the globe.

Heckuva job, W! At least we're still in Iraq so all the killing happens there and it hasn't followed us home.

Mission Accomplished, Part 1

In light of the fourth anniversary of President Codpiece's mighty words that the Iraq War was over (except for the next ten years of war), here's an update on how well things are going in Iraq that will be nice and not even mention all the people still dying there (from the New York Times):

In a troubling sign for the American-financed rebuilding program in Iraq, inspectors for a federal oversight agency have found that in a sampling of eight projects that the United States had declared successes, seven were no longer operating as designed because of plumbing and electrical failures, lack of proper maintenance, apparent looting and expensive equipment that lay idle.

The United States has previously admitted, sometimes under pressure from federal inspectors, that some of its reconstruction projects have been abandoned, delayed or poorly constructed. But this is the first time inspectors have found that projects officially declared a success — in some cases, as little as six months before the latest inspections — were no longer working properly.

One out of eight--that's batting .125 (I figure putting it in baseball terms might help the president understand). Perhaps we can call the political equivalent of the Mendoza Line the W. Line, but I guess we do already have the Bush Leagues. It's a good thing the U.S. never has problems with rebuilding within its own borders, right New Orleans?