And this is from a conservative paper

This op-ed piece in the Telegraph pulls no punches on Bush, Blair, and Iraq.

Squalor and fear suffuse the lives of the poor majority in the centre and the south. Greenish lakes of sewage lap the edges of the housing estates. Last week, the first cases of hepatitis, directly linked to the state of the infrastructure, were reported in Baghdad.

There is no work except for the jobs the occupiers are offering. Take one, and in the eyes of the insurgents you are a collaborator and a candidate for a bullet in the head. The middle classes, what remain of them, are no more secure.

The largesse donated by America and the world for reconstruction lies in bank vaults, mostly unspent. The insurgents' grip on the place means that almost all the projects that would improve living conditions are on hold.

And let's get to some of Bush's lies.

There is a yawning discrepancy between what the President claims is being done and what the Pentagon sees on the ground.

Mr Bush says there are 100,000 fully trained and equipped security forces currently at work. Defence department documents released this week estimate that only 22,700 Iraqi personnel had received enough training to make them "minimally effective at their tasks".

It would be so nice if our "liberal" press actually printed this information about our president lying during an election year. Instead, I have to read it in a conservative UK paper.

There's a lot more, so go read the whole thing.

...Special bonus! Another Telegraph piece critical of Iraq. Two for the price of one!