Fourth Anniversary Of Iraq War Greeted With...More Death.

Source: AP via Yahoo News

I remember an old song from a PBS show with a little lamb appropriately named "Lambchops" (it's what's for dinner!), and that song was about the song that never ends.

Well, change the lyrics around to fit the present, and you have the war that never ends.

So happy fourth anniversary, War on "Terra"! What's that? Don't I mean "terror"? Well, see...we all thought Bush was just being a dumb, slackjawed yokel when he pronounces "terror" as "terra," but you see, Bush is actually clever. He has disguised this as a "mispronunciation," but actually, he does mean to start a war on "terra," and he meant the whole damn Earth. So Bush really does have a brain!

So what does one get a nation for its fourth anniversary?

Death...and more death!

As the Iraq war entered its fourth year, nearly 1,500 U.S. and Iraqi soldiers on Sunday sought to root out insurgents from farming villages an hour's drive north of the capital, and at least 35 people died in insurgent and sectarian violence nationwide.

If that's not enough, how about the gift that keeps on giving--no real government.

Iraqi politicians still had not formed a government more than three months after landmark elections for the country's first permanent post-invasion parliament, but they announced an agreement on naming a Security Council to deal with key matters while negotiations proceed.

It looks like Iraq got a lot for its anniversary. At least George was thoughtful and spent a lot of money to show how much he cares!

At least 2,314 U.S. military personnel have died in the war, which is estimated to have cost $200 billion to $250 billion so far.

President Bush says about 30,000 Iraqis have been killed, while others put the toll far higher.

It looks like we also left some nice parting words, too. There's one to grow on!

Many politicians both inside and outside Iraq said the continuing violence could only be described as a civil war.

"It is unfortunate that we are in civil war. We are losing each day as an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more," former interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi told British Broadcasting Corp. "If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is."

The Bush administration and U.S. military leaders disagreed.

"Personally don't believe, one, that we're there now; two, that civil war is imminent; and, three, that it is inevitable that it will happen," Gen. George Casey, the U.S. commander in Iraq, said in an interview with Fox television.

I hope you had a nice time, Iraq, and hopefully for you, we won't be around for your fifth.

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