Shades of the USS Liberty affair. Ian Williams writes for his blog, Deadline Pundit July 26:

Accidentally on Purpose
With the Israeli bombing of a UN camp and the killing of four UN peacekeepers, we really do seem to be in a "deja vu" all over again phase. Already UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is under attack for condemning the "apparently deliberate targeting by Israeli Defense Forces of a UN Observer post."

Just remember, the private automobile stands for freedom, and if you're not with us you're with the terrorists. From Newsday, July 24:

Hummer driver pled guilty to loan-sharking charges

The Lloyd Harbor man who fell asleep and accidentally drove his Hummer into two teenage sisters, killing one, is awaiting sentencing on separate loan-sharking charges -- though that crime won't factor in the investigation into Sunday's accident, authorities said.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continued the second phase of its "Return to Sender" interior enforcement operation July 12-20 with raids through the state of Oklahoma and the metropolitan areas of Chicago, Illinois; Louisville, Kentucky; and Kansas City, Missouri. The same operation brought the arrest of 154 immigrants in a July 10-14 sweep through three Ohio cities. In the first phase of Return to Sender, 2,179 immigrants were arrested nationwide from May 26 to June 13. The operation targets immigrants who have final orders of deportation.

Another sacrifice for the American way of life. From the New York Post, July 20:

'3-TIME DWI' MOM KILLS PRIEST, 79

July 20, 2006 -- A beloved Long Island priest taking an evening walk was killed by a hit- run, serial drunken driver on a leafy East Hampton street, police said yesterday.

As if the facts in the headline aren't bad enough, note also the armed attacks on the Sunni religious establishment. It is starting to seem more and more like Bush's blundering into Iraq will have only succeeded into plunging the country into a genocidal situation. From AP, July 20:

Killers slit throats of mom, 3 children
Baghdad family had fled to Basra to escape threats

BAGHDAD -- Assailants slit the throats of a mother and her three children Wednesday in southern Iraq, where the family had fled to escape threats that they had cooperated with the Americans.

We have already noted the deep denial about the reality of sectarian civil war in Iraq which pervades both the pro-war right and the anti-war left. Finally, we are beginning to see the limits of willful self-delusion in the painfully obvious face of unrelenting massacre. Patrick Cockburn, writing for the UK's Independent July 19, sees not only a civil war already well underway, but a the approach of a genocidal threshold...

From La Jornada, July 18, translation via Chiapas95:

Government prevents Subcomandante Marcos' radio appearance

by Hermann Bellinghausen

Subcomandante Marcos' appearance on the airwaves of Radio 620 this Monday was prevented "by the pressures of the Mexican Presidency, the Secretariat of the Interior, the Senate, and those gentlemen from the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE), who consider themselves referees", denounced the conductors of 'Politica de Banqueta' during the last broadcast of the program. The show hosts as well as numerous in-calling listeners and a protest in front of the radio station, condemned this "act of censorship", which was also considered an "attack" against the liberty of expression.

From La Jornada, July 17, translation via Chiapas95:

Torture and harassment of political prisoners in El Amate prison denounced

by Hermann Bellinghausen

Civil organizations in Chiapas denounced the torture and harassment of "political prisoners" in the prison El Amate, in Cintalapa, on the initiative of the prison director, Armando Fabricio Maldonado Gomez, as well as physical aggressions against the relatives and friends of the prisoners constituting the group The Voice of El Amate and adhering to the Other Campaign.