4 a.m. Police in Baqouba said U.S. forces shot at an ambulance, believing someone in the vehicle had opened fire on them. The driver and the patient were not hurt.
All in all, 25 people were found dead or killed in Iraq. Still, some would argue that we're making progress in Iraq. John McCain, continuing his BS campaign, told reporters yesterday, "...I believe we are making progress. These are small signs of progress. They are not large signs of progress. We will know [more] when we get more of our surge over there." No word on what these 'small signs of progress' actually are, but trust John -- he's a straightshooter.
The White House was less circumspect.
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A huge anti-American protest swept two cities in Iraq today, but White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe told reporters this only underscores how much "progress" the U.S. is making in that country.
Four years since the fall of Baghad, Iraq "is now a place where people can freely gather and express their opinions, and that was something they could not do under Saddam." Johndrove said, traveling with President Bush to Arizona.
You know what's fun? That the White House had to go all the way back to Saddam Freakin' Hussein to give an example of when things actually sucked more. And, by any other measure, iraqis are worse off than they were under Hussein -- carbombing wasn't so much of a problem back then, for example. No civil war. No armed gangs. Hospitals were actually functioning. Little things like that...
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