“We don‘t know at this point who it was. We do know in the past that suicide vests have been used predominantly by al-Qaida,” the U.S. military spokesman said in an Associated Press broadcast interview.

That has to be the best news I’ve heard about the Iraq war ever.

It’s official, then. We’re no longer al Qaeda’s number one enemy in Iraq. We don’t need to fight them here or there. We don’t need to fight them anywhere.

There was also this gem by Condi Rice:

“We know that there is a security problem in Baghdad,” added Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice , speaking at the State Department. “This is still early in the process and I don‘t think anyone expected that there wouldn‘t be counter-efforts by terrorists to undermine the security presence.”

I don’t know what the point of any of that was. But I do understand that Buttercheeks will be issuing an amber alert this afternoon for the missing meaning of “This is still early in the process”. What, pray, is still early in which process?

And how about this:

A television camera and videotape belonging to a Western TV crew was confiscated by security guards moments after the attack.

We may not be able to prevent bombings. But we can sure as hell censor news coverage of it. That’s the American way, right? At least in the time of Bush.