Proving the Schiavo Case Should Have No More Exit Strategy than Iraq

From The Times:

Insurgent attacks flared across Iraq today, leaving at least 30 people dead, including an American soldier, exactly two years after the American military began its campaign to topple Saddam Hussein.

The attacks showed that the guerrilla war still burns fiercely here, long after President Bush proclaimed major combat operations to be over and despite a high turnout among Iraqis in the Jan. 30 elections. In what appeared to be a pitched battle, insurgents and American forces fought at noon on the outskirts of Baghdad. The American military said that 24 insurgents were killed and seven wounded, and six American soldiers were injured. It did not give more details.

Tensions between the Iraqi and Jordanian governments exploded again today, as each government called home its envoy from the neighboring country. Leaders of the two countries have been at odds since Shiite politicians in Iraq called for protests against a Jordanian man whom a Jordanian newspaper said last week may have been involved in a recent suicide car bombing. That attack killed at least 136 people in the town of Hilla, the worst death toll of any single bombing here.

In Amman, a military court sentenced Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant who is the most wanted man in Iraq, to 15 years of hard labor for his role in planning the bombing of the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad in August 2003, news agencies reported. An associate of Mr. Zarqawi's who had been detained by the Jordanian authorities was sentenced to three years in prison. Mr. Zarqawi has claimed responsibility for ambushes, bombings and beheadings that have killed hundreds in Iraq, and the American government has placed a $25 million bounty on him.

The American soldier who died today was killed by a roadside bomb while on patrol in the morning near the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk, the military said. At least 1,520 American soldiers have died in the war. Three other soldiers were injured in the attack. The explosion came a day after three Iraqi police officers were killed in Kirkuk in the bombing of a funeral procession of a police officer who was fatally shot on Friday.

Thank God all we talked about yesterday was a woman for whom 9-11 and neither Iraq War or Bush Administration has happened.