5 years on and no progress, despite bush's lies

Baghdad anniversary clampdown fails to stop violence

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Twenty people were killed in Baghdad's Shi'ite slum of Sadr City on Wednesday, security sources said, despite vehicle bans aimed at preventing unrest from spreading on the fifth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad.

Up to 70 people have died in Sadr City since Sunday in battles between black-masked militia loyal to cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and U.S. and Iraqi troops.

The upsurge in fighting comes as the top U.S. officials in Iraq testified in Washington that they opposed setting a timetable to withdraw troops from the 5-year-old war.

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Is there anyone in this admininstration that is working on a plan to make some actual progress in Iraq as opposed to simply continuing to fight the insurgents? The fighting could go on forever if some real changes aren't made.

We know that bush doesn't give a f'k, but surely someone wants a real end to the out of control violence and give the Iraqi people back a country that they can live in.