the occupation is going well

more good news from iraq

Massacre of unarmed Iraqi soldiers

Iraqi authorities have discovered the bodies of 44 Iraqi soldiers and four drivers after they were ambushed and killed overnight near the Iraq-Iran border, an Iraqi military commander said Sunday.

Col. Jassem Mohammed Alaiwa, commander of the Iraqi National Guards, said the soldiers were killed "execution style" -- along with their four drivers. They had been forced to lie down and were shot in the head about 80 miles east of Baghdad.

The soldiers had just completed training and were heading toward Basra in southern Iraq, Alaiwa said.

also...

On Saturday, two suicide car bombings and a drive-by shooting killed at least 14 people in separate incidents.

and those 14 people were all iraqis.

this reminds me of what goes on in ghettos here in the states. black on black crime, people living in a culture of poverty and fear killing each other off instead of focusing on the source of their oppression. i'm not saying i WANT the iraqi insurgents to kill more americans, but i find it ironic and depressing that - although we're losing troops there too, of course - on the whole, all that's being accomplished is the death of more iraqi people. the situation is degrading into the equivalent of a civil war... with the added benefits of a us occupation.