Meanwhile ... in Iraq and Afghanistan

It is insane that the two wars were pretty much not discussed at all through the four billion dollar campaigns for the 2010 elections.  Is it because the two parties are pretty much in agreement over continuing the wars?  The Tweedledum/Tweedledee similarity?  Awful.

Afghanistan's Karzai openly admits that Iran gives him bags of cash, and that the US also gives him.  Oh, yeah, nothing to worry about--we are sure he spends it wisely and responsibly, and does not encourage corruption of any sort.
If you believed that, then, hey, you are PT Barnum's fave!

Over at Iraq, no government even eight months after the elections. 
Yes, since March 7th. 

The real winner, as Juan Cole points out, is Iran.  The same country that gives bags of cash to Afghanistan.  WTF, eh!

What is the latest news from Iraq, you ask?  Not encouraging by any means:

Militants unleashed a wave of deadly attacks in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 113 people in Shiite neighborhoods in an apparent bid to provoke a new sectarian war in the country.

Seventeen car bombs and other blasts shook the city at sunset in one of the bloodiest days this year. The coordinated attacks, which bore the earmark of the Sunni Arab militant group Al Qaeda in Iraq, came just 48 hours after 58 people were killed after armed men seized a Baghdad church.

"The new Qaeda has started its work again in Iraq," a senior Iraqi security commander warned, speaking on condition of anonymity. "The situation is very bad."

What does President Bush think about his decision to go after those weapons of mass destruction that he said existed, and that otherwise we would see mushroom clouds from nuclear weapons?

In the autobiography, Mr Bush defends his decision to invade Iraq, according to advanced copies of the book.
He argues that both America and the Iraqis are better off without former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, whom he calls a "homicidal dictator".
But Mr Bush admits that he was shocked when no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq.
"No one was more shocked and angry than I was when we didn't find the weapons," he writes. "I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do."

Crap!
And his successor said that he only cares about going forward, and not looking back.  Quite a way forward it has been at the midterms, eh!