The Associated Press ain't buyin' the Bush/Cheney Iraq b.s.

case in point, this morning's headline...

Iraq War Enters 4th Year With More Deaths

point, point, point, point, counterpoint, point, counterpoint, counterpoint, point, MAIN point...

• As the Iraq war entered its fourth year, nearly 1,500 U.S. and Iraqi soldiers on Sunday sought to root out insurgents from farming villages an hour's drive north of the capital, and at least 35 people died in insurgent and sectarian violence nationwide.

• Iraqi politicians still had not formed a government more than three months after landmark elections for the country's first permanent post-invasion parliament . . .

• The 133,000 American troops on the ground inside Iraq was nearly a third more than took part in the campaign to oust Saddam Hussein that began in the early hours of March 20, 2003.

• At least 2,314 U.S. military personnel have died in the war, which is estimated to have cost $200 billion to $250 billion so far.

• Bush offered an upbeat assessment: "We are implementing a strategy that will lead to victory in Iraq. And a victory in Iraq will make this country more secure and will help lay the foundation of peace for generations to come," he said.

• "It is unfortunate that we are in civil war. We are losing each day as an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more," former interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi told British Broadcasting Corp. "If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is."

• "Personally don't believe, one, that we're there now; two, that civil war is imminent; and, three, that it is inevitable that it will happen," Gen. George Casey, the U.S. commander in Iraq, said in an interview with Fox television.

• In a sign of political progress, Iraq's top politicians emerged from the fourth in a series of U.S.-brokered all-party meetings on forming a new government and reported they had established an advisory, 19-member Security Council.

• As politicians met in Baghdad, Iraqi police said eight civilians, including a child, were killed during clashes between U.S. troops and gunmen in Duluiyah, 45 miles north of Baghdad. The U.S. military said it was checking the report.

going on four years... FOUR YEARS and no end in sight...

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