In Iraq, the violence mounts, with the death toll rising to almost 400 in the last 2 weeks.

Regarding the panic over the accidental appearance of a small plane in restricted airspace over Washington D.C. yesterday, Justin Raimondo of antiwar.com writes a good article mentioning this and the chaos in Iraq. He makes several pertinent points regarding the current US policy and its hollow "successes" in Afghanistan and Iraq. Especially how inspite of the billions spent on the "War on Terror" and invading Iraq, a small plane causes so much fear to officials in the capital. He gives a nice summary of all the main criminal acts and blunders the US under GWBush has commited after 911.