so now they're saying tony soprano has sent a delegation of family members to baghdad?

it's not that i'm cold and uncaring. i DO care what happens to innocent people. it does keep me up at night to know children are being abused everywhere around the world and all sorts of countries with populations of all hues are fighting each other over their gods or land or who has a bigger weenie (well what ELSE COULD it be?). i want our troops to come home and come home now. we don't belong there. yeah, saddam effed up the country BUT we have NO idea if there would have been this type of violence if he was simply removed from office and we never went in there to begin with. our king blames it ALL on saddam. to that i say peeeeeeeshaw. nope oh noble one. it be ALL on YOUR shoulders NOW (and in the history books too)

A dangerous war makes a staggering shift
With signs of organized crime, attacks on businesses, war enters new phase


NEWS ANALYSIS
Updated: 7:17 p.m. ET March 29, 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Fourteen shot at a trading company. At least 90 kidnapped at other businesses. Bodies dumped nightly, bound hand and foot, some tortured. A new brand of violence — a deadly mix of organized crime and sectarian murder — is tearing at Iraq.
Its origins are murky. But the savagery has turned March into a pivotal month in the three-year war — a month of gruesome news, mixed with some good. A sharp decline in American deaths appears to be the payoff for handing more duties to the Iraqi army, leaving U.S. forces less exposed to attack.
At the same time, there has been the rise in the slayings of civilian Iraqis, the reasons for which are hard to find.
Not so many weeks ago, this was a conflict with straightforward, if brutal, terms. Sunni insurgents and al-Qaida terrorists used car bombs, roadside bombs, suicide bomb belts and sniper rifles to target U.S. troops, Iraqi soldiers, police and civilians — mainly Shiites, the newly ascendent majority after years of Saddam Hussein’s oppression.......