Remember Iraq?

With the diversion of attention to the natural disaster in the Indian Ocean the un-natural disaster in Iraq has slipped to page two. Well the situation in Iraq is still real bad even on page two. 5 U.S. Troops Are Killed, and Baghdad Governor Is Slain.

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 4 - Four American soldiers and a marine were killed today and three other soldiers were wounded on a day that also saw the assassination of the governor of Baghdad, one of the highest-profile killings of an Iraqi official in months.

While US officials continue to insist that the problem is 5,000 to 20,000 insurgents Iraq's own intelligence service director, General Mohamed Abdullah Shahwani, thinks the number is 200,000. Oh well, how important can one zero be? Does Shahwani think the insurgents are winning?

Asked if the insurgents were winning, Shahwani answered: "I would say they aren't losing."

But what about our great victory in Fallujah you ask? To that General Shahwani answers:

"What we have now is an empty city almost destroyed... and most of the insurgents are free. They have gone either to Mosul or to Baghdad or other areas."

So Iraq is still there and it's still a chaotic mess. Even if the elections come off it won't change anything. Remember the election in Afghanistan? It went really well and Karzai is still nothing more than the mayor of Kabul.