Grave Yard

Baghdad: Wrecked cars in a car 'cemetery'; the cars were previously
used as car bombs in various areas of the war-torn capital.
Photograph: © Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty

This harrowing photo presents a sculptural landscape that I couldn't ever have imagined. It is not so much the wrecked cars, the eerie uniformity of color, their blasted nature. It is the underlying story, the rampage, the hundreds of deaths, the thousands of mangled bodies. Stop the war now. Keep saying it.

Got Milk?

This LA Times column should put a nice hornet in John McCain's Kevlar. He is so disappointing. As you surely know, he walked into a street market in Baghdad to demonstrate how safe the city is and how unfair the reportage from Baghdad has been.

The next day the massive protection he had for his "safe" walk was revealed. Market vendors laughed up their sleeves at the entourage. The LA Times columnist, John Kenny, transports us on an imaginary family trip to Farmer's Market in Indiana. The trip is taken under the same conditions as the Baghdad market. Read on. Please.