From The Guardian, Jan. 9:

One in eight Iraqis have left their homes in what is the largest long-term population movement in the Middle East since the displacement of the Palestinians in 1948, the UN's refugee agency said today.

From the ITV News, Jan. 15 (emphasis added):

US President George W Bush said Iraqi people should be grateful to the US for the 2003 invasion and the removal of Saddam Hussein.

Boy, this says just about everything that needs to be said, doesn't it? From Newsday, Jan. 10:

Serviceman back from Iraq hit, dragged by cars

NEW MILFORD, N.J. - A U.S. Army specialist who had just returned from Iraq was hit by a car as he walked toward his grandmother's house, then was dragged for a half-mile by another vehicle.

Never forget, this is what we're fighting for in Iraq. It's about our way of life, remember? From NY1, Jan. 10:

Queens Man Arrested After Traffic Dispute Leads To Fatal Shooting

The brother of a man fatally shot by an off-duty correction officer during a traffic dispute Tuesday night in Queens has been charged with assault.

Mowing somebody down with an SUV is certainly a rather decisive way to win an argument. Note how this charming incident uniquely merges the respective pathologies of the USA, with its automotive death cult, and the Balkans, with their endless ethno-historical grudges. Does anybody know exactly what they were arguing about? We are morbidly curious. From AP, Dec. 31:

Here we go again. We take it for granted that Washington is pressuring Baghdad to execute these guys before they can be tried for the far greater crimes of the Kurdish genocide—because that would raise questions about US complicity. But it is also starting to look like someone is intentionally turning the executions into unseemly lynch-mob orgies, with the aim of exacerbating the sectarian conflict. And we do not believe this is what Washington wants. From the BBC News, Jan. 15 (emphasis added):

It's a sign of the times that this fringe sect is on the front page of the New York Times Metro section Jan. 15. This story makes clear that Neturei Karta is distinct from the Satmars, an Hasidic sect which likewise rejects Zionism as apostasy but wisely keeps its distance from the likes of Ahmadinejad. This is a point many are confused on—including ourselves before we were set straight. The group Jews Not Zionists seems to be a sort of ecumenical clearing-house for all Orthodox anti-Zionist tendencies. On the subject of the radical fringe, the ubiquitous Jewish Defense Organization referenced here is, for all its relentless noise, not an "organization" at all. It is one guy called Mordechai Levy. Writes Fernanda Santos:

A telling story by Marc Perelman for New York's Jewish weekly The Forward Jan. 12 (links and emphasis added):

A campaign to convince Iran’s 25,000 Jews to flee the country has stalled, with most opting to stay in their native homeland despite President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial and anti-Israeli speeches.