At least 50 journalists and other media workers have been killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion of Iraq two years ago. It should have been 51, but Serena got away. With the number at 50, I would say if you are a reporter, your chances of being killed in Iraq are great.

The situation is depressing. Bush has not articulated an exit stategery...(victory stategery only, whatever that means, I thought we already had Mission Accomplished). But the gig is up Mr. Bush and the Americans are getting impatient and want a timetable of when all the troops will be withdrawn.
The trick here for Bush is that when he claims successes and great progress then the American public says, okay then bring home the troops. But Bush can't do that either just because it is so bad over there(plus I don't believe it's his end game to have the troops withdrawn quickly either, but he hasn't told the american public that secret yet). So the natives back home get restless and wonder why if things are going so well, elections were held as we saw many purple fingers, and if freedom is marching as he claims, then why can't we have our servicemen/women back home? He literally is between I-raq and a hard place on this. He needs to be candid with the American public and come clean...but that isn't going happen.

Things are all good....unless you are in the new punishment states of america.

Or an Iraqi woman at ....Abu Ghraib.

"America's current critics need to recognize that in pursuing its self-interest the United States is hardly unique-what singles us out from among nations is our obdurate hypocrisy. We have to pretend to ourselves that we are doing the right thing-often at the cost of actually doing it." Lee Harris

Or...just an Iraqi .

"Recently, arrests and sweeps have increased, and many of those held are prisoners of conscience, and the tragedy is that women and children are involved..." Abduljabbar Saleem, Iraq Liberation Party