"One would assume you would also return Saddam to power, donate some
brand new wood chippers, build a couple childrens prisons and give all
the surviving Baathists and Feyadeen brand new Delta cordless drills
and Forstner bits just the right size to drill knee caps?

Gunner "

I for one do not know what the best course of action at this time is
BUT I do remember who got us into this mess and the lies that have
occurred along the way.

Meanwhile, remember those same people say that Iraq is not heading
towards civil war.....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060314/...E0BHNlYwN0bWE-

Iraqis Find 85 Bodies in 24-Hour Period By ALEXANDRA ZAVIS, Associated
Press Writers

Police in the past 24 hours have found the bodies of at least 85 people
killed by execution-style shootings - a gruesome wave of apparent
sectarian reprisal slayings, officials said Tuesday.

The dead included at least 27 bodies stacked in a mass grave in an
eastern Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad.

The bloodshed - the second wave of mass killings in Iraq since
bombers destroyed an important Shiite shrine last month - followed
weekend attacks in a teeming Shiite slum in which 58 people died and
more than 200 were wounded.

Iraq's Interior Ministry announced a ban on driving in the capital to
coincide with the first meeting of the new parliament Thursday. The ban
takes effect at 8 p.m. Wednesday and lasts until 4 p.m. Thursday.

Squabbling over the composition of a new government has delayed the
inaugural session since the results of Dec. 15 elections were confirmed
more than a month ago.

Leaders of Iraq's main ethnic and religious blocs, meanwhile, began a
series of marathon meetings Tuesday to try to break the deadlock. U.S.
Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, who has been shuttling between the main
factions, joined the session hosted by Shiite leader Adbul-Aziz
al-Hakim.

The stakes are high for Washington, which hopes a strong and inclusive
central government can stabilize Iraq so U.S. forces can start drawing
down in the summer.

Most of the corpses were found in Baghdad, while three were found in
the northern city of Mosul, police said.

Acting on an anonymous tip, police found a 6-by-8-yard hole in an empty
field. It contained at least 27 dead men - most of them in their
underwear - in Kamaliyah, a mostly Shiite east Baghdad suburb, said
Interior Ministry Lt. Col. Falah al-Mohammedawi. He estimated they had
been dead for three days.

Residents offered scarves to help cover the bodies, which were laid out
on the ground. Police guarded the site as members of a Shiite militia
dug for more corpses. An Associated Press photographer took pictures of
the grave but was warned not to publish them.

An abandoned minibus containing 15 bodies was found Tuesday on the main
road between two mostly Sunni neighborhoods in west Baghdad, not far
from where another minibus containing 18 bodies was discovered last
week, said Interior Ministry official Maj. Falah al-Mohammedawi.

At least 40 more bodies were discovered in various parts of Baghdad,
including both Sunni and Shiite neighborhoods, he said.

They included four men shot in the head execution-style and hanged from
electricity pylons in Sadr City, where two car bombs and four mortar
rounds shattered shops and market stalls at nightfall Sunday as
residents shopped for food.

Scores of frightened Shiite families have fled predominantly Sunni
parts of Baghdad in recent weeks, some of them at gunpoint. More than
100 families arrived between Monday and Tuesday alone in Wasit
province, in the southern Shiite heartland, said Haitham Ajaimi Manie,
an official with the provisional migration directorate. More than 300
Baghdad families are now sheltering in the province, he said.

The violence since the Feb. 22 bombing of the famed golden dome atop
the Shiite Askariya shrine in Samarra has complicated negotiations for
Iraq's first permanent, post-invasion government. A caretaker
government has been in charge since the December elections, and U.S.
and Iraqi officials fear the vacuum in authority is fueling the
bloodshed.

Under pressure from Khalilzad, leaders of the main ethnic and religious
groups agreed Sunday to meet daily until they can unblock the political
negotiations.

Among the most contentious issues is Shiite Prime Minister Ibrahim
al-Jaafari's candidacy for a second term. Kurdish, Sunni and some
secular leaders argue he is too divisive and accuse him of doing too
little to contain reprisal attacks on Sunni mosques and clerics after
the Shiite shrine was destroyed.

The Shiite United Iraqi Alliance is itself divided over al-Jaafari. He
won the nomination by just one vote last month in large part because of
the support of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Al-Hakim favored
Adil Abdul-Mahdi, one of two current vice presidents.

Also present at Tuesday's meeting were President Jalal Talabani and
Massoud Barzani, leaders of the main Kurdish parties; Dhafir al-Ani, an
official with the main Sunni bloc; and former Prime Minister Ayad
Allawi, a secular Shiite.

President Bush said insurgents were trying to ignite a civil war by
escalating the violence.

"I wish I could tell you that the violence is waning and that the road
ahead will be smooth," Bush said in the first of a series of speeches
to mark the third anniversary of the start of the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
"It will not. There will be more tough fighting and more days of
struggle, and we will see more images of chaos and carnage in the days
and months to come."

Bomb blasts and shootings in Baghdad and north of the capital, many of
them targeting Iraqi police patrols, killed at least 15 more people
Monday and wounded more than 40. They included a U.S. soldier who died
in a roadside bombing, the military said. A U.S. Marine was reported
killed Sunday in insurgent-plagued Anbar province.

The American deaths brought the number of U.S. military members killed
to at least 2,308 since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003,
according to an Associated Press count.

Britain, the United States' largest military partner in Iraq, announced
a 10 percent - about 800-troop - reduction by May.

In Paris, a high-ranking U.S. official expressed concern about security
in Iraq's oil sector.

Stuart W. Bowen Jr., U.S. special inspector general for Iraq
reconstruction, compared the rebuilding program to a three-legged stool
built on governance, security and infrastructu "Each of those legs
is a little wobbly right now," he said.

Iraq currently produces 1.7 million to 1.8 million barrels of oil per
day - far short of the capacity of 2.8 million and down from a
post-invasion peak of 2.4 million last summer, he said.

"The drop, since then, is connected primarily to attacks," he said,
adding that U.S. expectations on oil production were too high. "There
was an assumption that has proven not to be accurate - that is, that
the Iraqis would be able to fund recovery through their oil income."