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Sorry to ruin everyone's Boxing Day, but I didn't want to ignore this headline-

AFP: US fatalities in Iraq top 9/11 toll

The number of American fatalities in Iraq have surpassed the death toll for the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, shining the spotlight on US policy in the war-wracked country...

...The macabre US milestone was marked, according to an AFP count, by the deaths of three soldiers in a bomb attack northwest of Baghdad on Tuesday, 24 hours after another four troops were killed on Christmas Day...

...It is a shattered Iraq which enters the new year this week, after the deadly insurgency following the 2003 invasion escalated into brutal sectarian war, forcing Bush to contemplate a major policy shift to halt total disintegration...

...Since the US-led invasion to remove Saddam, just 17 months after US-led troops invaded Afghanistan, tens of thousands of Iraqis have perished...

And it's all been worth it, right? Because of those Iraqis who blew up the World Trade... oh, wait. Was that something about Afghanistan? And an 'O-sama'? Oh well, who can bother to remember. All that matters is we're at war with someone and that's good for business America. Or something.

Of course, the new way forward is coming. Unfortunately, 2009 isn't coming sooner.