"Sectarian violence has forced about 100,000 families across Iraq to flee their homes, a top Iraqi official said. At least 17 people, including a
April 28, 2006

"Sectarian violence has forced about 100,000 families across Iraq to flee their homes, a top Iraqi official said. At least 17 people, including an American soldier, were killed Saturday in fighting. Adil Abdul-Mahdi, one of the country's two vice presidents, estimated on Friday that 100,000 Iraqi families — 90 percent of them his fellow Shiites — had fled their homes to escape attacks by rival religious sects....read on"

Let's hear what Laura Ingraham has to say on this report. Never mind. We know, it is the media's fault. As Atrios says, "...will the fact that our country is run by delusional lunatics will ever quite penetrate the skulls of our elite pundit class?"

No, it won't Duncan, not while we have pundits like Wolf Blitzer hoping for the administration "to catch a break," rather than be held accountable. Lunatics don't catch breaks, they engage in acts of insanity, get caught immediately or escape and get caught later-or escape and are never heard from again.

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