Rosebud has been saying so for weeks: "The surge is working" is a lie. The number one source for reporting on the Iraq war is now the U.S. military (with only a handful of reporters left in Iraq, and those still there submitted to censorship), and the military lies. See the story in today's New York Times: "U.S. Military Says It Incorrectly Reported that 3 Iraqis Killed in June Were Armed." Paragraph one:

"The American military admitted Suday night that a platoon of soldiers raked a car of innocent Iraqis civilians with hundreds of rounds of gunfire and that the military then issued a news release larded with misstatements, asserting that the victims were criminals who had fired on the troops."

We'd all like to know the story behind that correction; but in the meantime, how many other "misstatements" get by?

And now today we have news of renewed violence in Baghdad. From the Huffington Post: "Female suicide bombers struck a Shiite pilgrimage in Baghdad and a Kurdish protest rally in northern Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and wounding nearly 300, police said. Three women detonated their explosive vests in the middle of pilgrims in Baghdad, moments after a roadside bomb attack, killing at least 32 people and wounding 102, Iraqi officials said. In the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk, 25 people were killed and 185 wounded when a blast tore through a crowd of Kurds protesting a draft provincial elections law, officials said..."

This news is coming from the Iraqis—"police" and "officials"—not the U.S. military, which would have us believe Iraq is becoming a nice little well-run colony. Does anyone wonder why 3 in 4 four suicide bombers in Iraq are now women, with what the U.S. invasion has done to their families, their children?