Tactius points out a lot of positive news in Iraq. Unfortunately when things start to look good we have this.

The recent terrible attacks are against innocent Iraqi people. The objective of the attackers seems to have shifted from causing casualties among the coalition forces to targeting large groups of Iraqis or the Iraqi security forces in order to forment civil war among the Sunnis and Shias. The attackers may have given up on the Mogadishu strategy because of President Bush's resoluteness. We have to develop better tactics and methods to track these thugs down to end the attacks like those that happened today. And the Iraqis have to help.