WH: "We did prevail" (here's what Bush won)

[ProSense]

WH: "We did prevail"

Tell them what they've won!

A shabby dictator turned martyr:

Video: 655,000 Iraqi deaths

Video: Faces of 3,480 Fallen U.S. Soldiers

The Iraq Effect: War has Increased Terrorism Seven Fold.

From Juan Cole:

Al-Maliki Government uses Saddam-era law to block corruption probes.

Bush may have thought his hearts and minds campaign couldn't get any worse, but he was wrong:

Bush Makes Saddam Look Good

[ProSense]

1. Kick! n/t

[Blaukraut]

2. kick for the truth n/t

[fedupinBushcountry]

7. I second that

:kick:

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. K&R!

[myrna minx]

4. It's too bad our parting gifts are 3500 dead troops,

600,000 dead Iraqis, and a never ending war.

[mloutre]

5. *bzzzt!* but thank you for playing. n/t

[TayTay]

6. It is unbelievable to look back and see the horror of it all

And to know that Bush is completely unable to see it at all. That is just unbelievably, numbingly awful.

[Az_lefty]

8. Iraq is a total disaster and it amazes me the so many don't see it.

[Joe Chi Minh]

9. And 40,000 plus orphans.

[Joe Chi Minh]

10. Actually, I think it was cited as 400,000. Iraqi that is. I don't know how many

American families bereaved of one parent, a father or mother.

[ProSense]

11. 40,000 children in orphanages

Help for Iraqi Orphans Falls on Charities

by Jamie Tarabay

Morning Edition, April 18, 2007 · The Iraq war has cost a great number of children one or both parents. The United Nations estimates there are 40,000 children living in orphanages with local charities picking up the tab for their care.