The Washington Times: World: "Masked gunmen methodically separated two busloads of passengers into Sunnis and Shi'ites before fatally shooting 21 Shi'ites yesterday, the latest attack in an ethnically driven campaign of violence that is systematically dividing the capital, one neighborhood at a time."

Bush supporters continue to exhort the "progress in Iraq" rhetoric, however, for the true believers and party faithful. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.