Government offices are in flames, hospitals are being trashed, gun battles are raging between the looters and the looted, corpses are rotting in the streets and the people of Baghdad are rapidly losing their taste for "liberation," American style. With the US Army stretched thin on the ground, there simply aren't enough troops to restore order.
So here's how a squad of American GIs spent their day yesterday:
At the Rashid Hotel, where many foreign journalists visiting Mr. Hussein's Iraq were required to stay, American troops were sent to break up a tile mosaic of the first President Bush on the floor of the lobby. Until the mosaic was destroyed today, the likeness of Mr. Bush was stepped on dozens of times a day.
Thank God we've got our priorities straight.