Iraq

Its hard to get a clear read on what's going on in Iraq today, but it certainly doesn't look good. Everytime I click on the news the number of dead in today's rampages has increased. Now it's reported to be 66, but, at the rate we're going, it could end up being many more.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A series of suicide attacks, car bombs and mortar barrages rocked Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 66 people and wounding scores as Iraq teetered on the brink of sectarian civil war. Iraqis suffered through days of reprisal killings and attacks on Sunni mosques after bombers blew apart the gold dome of a Shiite Muslim shrine north of Baghdad on Wednesday. Fears were complicated by the continuing struggle among Iraqi politicians to form a government based on parliamentary elections nearly three months ago.

These attacks are going on all around the country, and, as many bloggers have discussed, the Washington Post puts the number of people killed since the blast at the Shiite shrine at about 1,300. I very much doubt this situation can be brought back under control for any sustained period of time.