We’ve turned another corner, and the insurgents are on the run. Victory will be ours any moment now.

Two suicide bombers disguised as police infiltrated the heavily fortified Interior Ministry compound in Baghdad and blew themselves up Monday during celebrations of National Police Day, killing 29 Iraqis.

The attackers died before getting near the U.S. ambassador and senior Iraqi officials at the festivities, but the blasts capped a particularly deadly week for American and Iraqi forces.

Iraqi police also were searching for an American journalist who was kidnapped Saturday by gunmen who ambushed her car and killed her translator in Baghdad.

Jill Carroll, a 28-year-old freelancer for The Christian Science Monitor, was seized in Baghdad’s predominantly Sunni Arab al-Adel neighborhood. Police said she went there to see a Sunni Arab politician.

The escalating violence after the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections — at least 498 Iraqis and 54 U.S. forces have been killed — came as
Iraq’s electoral commission again delayed releasing the results of the vote.

Thank God for those elections.

If I sound mocking in tone, it’s not from lack of respect for the dead, Americans or Iraqi. It’s from the sense of outrage I feel about being constantly spoon-fed BS from Bush that we are winning, that the elections were the dawn of a new golden era, that there is now freedom and liberty and blah blah blah blah…. It’s an exact mirror of my lack of patience with the Chinese government. Their sins are so evident, their lies so blatant, I feel all I can do is hold up a mirror in front of their faces and hope that more people see just how huge the deceit is. There was a time when I was so optimistic, when I thought victory really was right around the corner. There was also a time when I really thought Hu was about to usher in new reforms. No more naivete. No more cutting them any slack.