Three years

I'm not sure which is more harrowing: Patrick Cockburn's latest dispatch from Iraq, or Riverbend's solemn review of three years of "occupation and bloodshed."

And then, well, there's this:

Iraqi police have accused American troops of executing 11 people, including a 75-year-old woman and a 6-month-old infant, in the aftermath of a raid last Wednesday on a house about 60 miles north of Baghdad.

The villagers were killed after American troops herded them into a single room of the house, according to a police document obtained by Knight Ridder Newspapers. The soldiers also burned three vehicles, killed the villagers' animals and blew up the house, the document said.

I suppose that would explain why earlier reports noted that the kids were killed by headshots.