The situation in Iraq is getting worse and worse. For some reason U.S. airstrikes have been hitting more civilian areas of Baghdad since Sunday. No comment so far on this from the Pentagon or the White House.

An Iraqi counter-offensive is underway it seems. Hundreds have already died in the battle for Basra and Nadschaf. Lots of them members of the Allied Forces, too.

This war is exactly turning into the sort of fucked-up mess critics like myself have foretold.

I wish, we'd been wrong...