Body bags and flip-flops

In Iraq chaos moves from street to street with new ferocity. Sunni leaders who joined Shiites to work on the new constitution have been assassinated. As of Tuesday, the number of US troops killed in Iraq since Bush attacked on March 19, 2003, numbered 1770. A new British study reports nearly 25,000 Iraqi civilians killed, 37% of them by US forces. But Bush and Company keep finding ways to distract Americans from reality. It has even reached the super-absurd with nationwide reporting on four young women who dared to wear flip-flops with their nice outfits on a group visit to the White House.

Will somebody please now turn the cameras back on Karl the Architect, who is undoubtedly whipping up new barrels of Teflon for his boss even as reporters go out to price the flip-flops?