Both the President and Vice-President continually argue that Iraqis are better off now because Saddam's no longer in power. They also point to the fact that Iraqis are no longer dying in the hands of Saddam's brutal regime.

This they proclaim (very loudly, I might add) as a major achievement.

Over a 1,000 service men and women have died since the "end of major conflict." An untold number of Iraqi civillians have died in the cross-fire between American forces and Iraqi insurgents - not to mention the hundreds (thousands?) who have died as a result of car bombs that seem to be going off with impunity across Iraq. Just yesterday, 57 Iraqis died when a car bomb exploded near a Baghdad police station.

This is achievement?
This is progress?
That the hand of the executioner has changed?

If that's how they define success, I'd hate to see how they define failure.

Note to President and VP Chicken Hawks - it doesn't matter to the Iraqi people who's responsible for the killing. At the end of the day, the fact remains, too many of them continue to die for no reason and with appaling, gut-wrenching regularity.

Or is it that neither of you care, for as long as Halliburton and Co. continues to make money out of this whole sorry mess you've led the American people and the world to?