Just Another Day in Paradise

Violence was particularly high in Iraq on the final day of 2005, with notations that it was at least as violent as 2004.

So where's the great improvement? You know, the one we always hear about when the Bushies complain the media never tells us about all the nice stories in Iraq (while CNN shows about 10 hours per day of footage of Baby Noor, the child with spina bifida that they came across while they were sacking the family's home looking for insurgents because what you do in a free democracy is have combat troops enter homes by force).