Bush Goes Green

To the green zone, Starsky. We need a photo op!

Don't worry about the cost, good lord, we've lost more money in Iraq than you can imagine.

Meanwhile, in the South of Iraq, where things had been going swimmingly, it's falling apart.

This once-quiet city (Basra) of riverside promenades was among the most receptive to the American invasion. Now, three years later, it is being pulled apart by Shiite political parties that want to control the region and its biggest prize, oil. But in today's Iraq, politics and power flow from the guns of militias, and negotiating has been a bloody process.

Now, after two years of relative calm, Basra has a soaring murder rate (the 85 killings in May were nearly triple the number in January), a tattered oil industry and a terrified population.

How are we going to win this war?