Mission Accomplished 3rd Birthday

The U.S. military said on Monday it had every confidence in the new Iraqi army it is training, after hundreds of Sunni Arab recruits joined a protest at a graduation parade that bordered on mutiny.

An as yet unnamed soldier killed by a roadside bomb near Baghdad on Saturday was the 2,400th American to die in uniform in Iraq, all but 140 of them since Bush declared "major combat" over on May 1, 2003. Nearly 17,500 have been wounded.

So, three years ago the mission was accomplished and since then we've lost over 2,000 of our finest. Meanwhile the Iraqi army has made enough progress to put on a bullshit show for the American public only to have the whole charade crash and burn when hundreds of "soldiers" mutiny on the spot! If this weren't so deadly serious, I'd laugh.