Tit For Tat

About a month ago Vice President Dick Cheney said that the recent increase in violence in Iraq was occurring because the insurgents knew we had elections coming up, and were trying to influence American voters into voting for Democrats. This is a truly insightful theory, especially coming from the same man who A) In 2003 said American troops would be greeted as liberators and B) last year said the insurgency was in its last throes.

Obviously the Vice President has established his credibility, which is what makes last Thursday's events in Iraq so odd. In case you missed it, a series of car bombings in a Shiite slum killed 215 civilians. Sunnis were blamed for the attacks. Not to be made fools of, Shiites responded the next day by seizing six Sunni muslims leaving prayer services, dousing them in kerosene, and setting them on fire.

Guess someone needs to tell those stupid Iraqis that our elections are over.