Shock And Awe

" If you look back on those five years it has been a difficult, challenging but nonetheless successful endeavor...and it has been well worth the effort. "

-- Vice President Dick Cheney, at a news conference today in Baghdad. Later in the day, a female suicide bomber killed 25 and wounded 50 Iraqis in Southern Iraq, while bombings in Baghdad killed 4 and wounded 13 others.

[UPDATE: Ditto President Bush.]