Fallujah.

"As is frequently the case, Iraqi officials and those in Falluja disputed the US military's account of the raid.

"A spokesman for Iraq's health ministry said 44 people died and 27 were injured. The injured included 17 children and two women, he said. Television footage showed seriously injured women and children."

Now, that's the puppet health ministry.

What a way to win hearts and minds. As the man said, OBL couldn't have asked for this in his wildest dreams.

'Bring them on!" President Bush challenged the early Iraqi insurgency in July of last year. Since then, 812 American soldiers have been killed and 6,290 wounded, according to the Pentagon. Almost every day, in campaign speeches, Bush speaks with bravado about how he is "winning" in Iraq. "Our strategy is succeeding," he boasted to the National Guard convention on Tuesday. But, according to the US military's leading strategists and prominent retired generals, Bush's war is already lost. Retired general William Odom, former head of the National Security Agency, told me: "Bush hasn't found the WMD. Al-Qaida, it's worse, he's lost on that front. That he's going to achieve a democracy there? That goal is lost, too. It's lost." He adds: "Right now, the course we're on, we're achieving Bin Laden's ends."