Everything hunky dory in Iraq

As Iraq spirals out of control with more than 30 Sunni mosques attacked over 130 killed today in the chaos of sectarian fighting that has broken out after the destruction of the Shiite shrine and with seven American soldiers killed in unrelated incidents, the US spokesman steps up and says:

As of now seven attacks on mosques across Iraq have taken place that resulted in damage to mosques. Two Sunni imams (prayer leaders) and one Sunni sheikh were murdered," Lynch told reporters, playing down the sectarian strife.

"Some drive-by shootings against mosques have been reported ... that's where we are. So we are not seeing civil war igniting in Iraq. We are not seeing 77, 80, 100 mosques damaged in Iraq. We are not seeing death on the streets."

"We are not seeing death on the streets." I guess he has his eyes closed. I did hear earlier today that Americans have been ordered not to go into the streets and to remain in their bases. So perhaps they haven't seen death in the streets.

Oh, and yes, I'm sure we can probably find at least one school that had electricity for more than an hour today.