Don’t assume that bad news is bad and good news is good. President Bush says that the violence in Iraq is a sign of progress. Seriously. Do you realize how bad things would really be if there were no suicide bombings, guerrilla attacks and anti-American violence in Iraq?

Bushocrats accepting the poisoned chalice
Apparently, according to a USA Today study , companies that received contracts for reconstruction in Iraq donated large amounts of money to the Bush election campaign.
· Contract with Evil Forces [USA Tomorrow]
· Labyrinthine [CBC ]

War by Car Bomb
It is possible to win a counterguerrilla war. The British did so in Malaya in the 1950s. The United States may succeed in doing so in Iraq today. They are nothing like the successful Vietnamese, Chinese or Cuban guerrillas, who were, in Mao's famous phrase, fish swimming in the sea of the people.
· The Saddam loyalists swim in a small lake [Washington Post]