Bush: It's a new day in Iraq (graphics heavy)

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush said on Sunday the formation of a government in Iraq marked a "new day" for the country...



Abdullah Yaseen cries as he waits to receive the body of his father Yaseen Abd outside Ibn al-Nafees hospital, after a suicide bomber killed at least 13 people and injured 17 when he blew himself up in a downtown Baghdad restaurant frequented by police in Baghdad, Iraq Sunday, May 21, 2006.


A mother is comforted outside a hospital after her son was killed when two roadside bombs exploded in a crowded fruit market in New Baghdad - a mixed Shiite, Sunni Arab and Christian area in an eastern part of the capital - killing three civilians and wounding 23 in Baghdad, Iraq Sunday, May 21, 2006.


An Iraqi man outside a hospital mourns the loss of a relative who was killed when two roadside bombs exploded in a crowded fruit market in New Baghdad - a mixed Shiite, Sunni Arab and Christian area in an eastern part of the capital - killing three civilians and wounding 23 in Baghdad, Iraq Sunday, May 21, 2006.


*Some of the following images are rather graphic*









A plain-clothed policeman inspects the scene where a suicide bomber killed at least 13 people and injured 17 when he blew himself up in a downtown Baghdad restaurant frequented by police in Baghdad, Iraq Sunday, May 21, 2006


An injured man arrives on a stretcher to Ibn al-Nafees hospital, after a suicide bomber killed at least 13 people and injured 17 when he blew himself up in a downtown Baghdad restaurant frequented by police in Baghdad, Iraq Sunday, May 21, 2006


Iraqis inspect burned-out shops as US and Iraqi soldiers secure the site where a car bomb exploded in al-Shuala district, west of Baghdad.


Unidentified youths believed to be relatives comfort each other outside Ibn al-Nafees hospital


Iraqis help a wounded resident after a suicide bombing attack inside a crowded restaurant popular with the police in Baghdad May 21, 2006.


Passers-by walk down the street past a pool of blood left when a roadside bomb missed its target - a police patrol - but wounded five civilians in the mostly Sunni Arab neighborhood of Saidiyah in Baghdad, Iraq Sunday, May 21, 2006.


Sausan Omar is treated in Yarmouk hospital after being injured when a roadside bomb missed its target - a police patrol - but wounded five civilians in the mostly Sunni Arab neighborhood of Saidiyah in Baghdad, Iraq Sunday, May 21, 2006


Associated Press - ....The president did not speak of the spree of bombing, mortar rounds and a drive-by shooting that killed at least 18 Iraqis and wounded dozens — most of them hit by a suicide bomber who targeted a Baghdad restaurant during Sunday's lunch hour.

[jaxx]

1. Dubya ought to roll up his sleeves and get to werk in Iraq.

Think of all the photo ops he's missing.

[Rose Siding]

2. Do you suppose their ER treatment is as successful as what our troops get?

I don't get HBO so I didn't see last night's special, though I imagine the efforts are all-out -as they should be. Still, it made me wonder about how much we've invested in the medical treatment of war wounded Iraqis.