Just doing my bit to remind everyone how swell things are going in Iraq. ABC News/AP reports:

At least 56 Iraqis died Thursday in violence, including a car bombing that killed 25 people in the third major attack on a police lockup in three days.

A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives at the entrance to the Interior Ministry Major Crimes unit in Baghdad's central Karradah district, killing 10 civilians and 15 policemen employed there, authorities said.

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Insurgents engineered a successful jailbreak that released more than 30 prisoners north of Baghdad on Tuesday.

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A mortar round fell on a Baghdad house, wounding three civilians, said police Lt. Ziad Hassan. Another civilian was seriously wounded by an Iraqi army patrol that was shooting in the air to clear traffic in a western neighborhood, police said.

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Fourteen more bodies were found in an ongoing series of shadowy sectarian killings

When a CRANKed reporter asked a Pentagon spokesperson about these incidents of "progress" he swore he could hear what sounded like Uncle Rummy's voice bellowing, "Democracy is messy!" from some backroom.

There are unconfirmed reports that someone, somewhere in Iraq was able to go about his business without worry of a car bomb, kidnapping, U.S. military strike, IED, or just getting caught in the cross fire. Because we're dedicated to telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth, we at CRANKed will be following up on this report.

BREAKING There is also news that a school has just been painted!!!!! No word on whether or not the school has electricity on a regular basis or clean running water, but it has been painted!
posted by Idle Crank at 3/23/2006 01:23:00 PM