Things Are Getting Better In Iraq...NOT!

So it isn't even now safe to be a baker in Iraq? We put 75,000 troops into Bagdhad and this happens? But things are getting better.

Gunmen seized 10 workers from a bakery Sunday in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, while a car bomb exploded near a university in the northern city of Mosul, killing a woman and wounding 19 other people, police said.

The scattered attacks came after a day of unrelenting violence that killed more than two dozen people as insurgents foiled heightened security measures, dealing a blow to the Iraqi government's pledge to bring peace to the capital.

And then there's that little thing about the "Triangle of Death" where US soldiers disappear. Wow. That should attract thousands of tourists.

The U.S. military, meanwhile, combed through the "Triangle of Death," a predominantly Sunni Arab region south of the capital for a second day looking for two soldiers missing since an attack Friday on a traffic checkpoint that also killed one of their comrades.

Seriously, I do hope the two soldiers are found alive and well. I worry they'll be treated like the US now treats captives.

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