Happy may day

As we celebrate May Day let us not forget that this is also the anniversary of the end of military combat in Iraq. Since Bush declared 'Mission Accomplished' on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln four years ago, Iraq has enjoyed peace and prosperity as it has steadily rebuilt its goverment and infrastructure. Oh crap, none of that has happened.

A report came out yesterday from the U.S. State Department that global terrorism increased more than 25% in 2006.

"The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We've removed an ally of al Qaeda, and cut off a source of terrorist funding. And this much is certain: No terrorist network will gain weapons of mass destruction from the Iraqi regime, because the regime is no more." - Bush four years ago today

"Incidents in Iraq accounted for nearly half of the 14,000 attacks and about two-thirds of the more than 20,000 fatalities worldwide. The number of deaths blamed on attacks increased by about 40 percent.
The spike comes from the eruption of sectarian killings and bombings that followed the February 2006 bombing of the al-Askariya mosque in the Iraqi city of Samarra, according to Frank Urbancic, the State Department's acting counterterrorism coordinator.
That attack, blamed on al Qaeda in Iraq, destroyed a revered Shiite Muslim shrine and led to a wave of reprisals between Iraq's Sunni and Shiite communities." CNN.com today

War in Iraq Far from Being Over