[syriacus]

The convoy's orders: "Get to Baghdad as quickly as possible," officers told this Reuters correspondent as troops tightened their grip around Kut, about 170 km (105 miles) southeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

Has Arnett put out a false report that the Americans are heading away from Baghdad, yet?

Or is he saving that news for his historical fiction account of the war?

[m1911]

Another captured bridge. Curiouser and curiouser it gets. If there was any attempt at concerted defense, as of the first weekend of the war there would have been NO bridges left over the Euphrates and as of last weekend there would have been NO bridges over the Tigris. This is just bizarre.