Quiet, Or You'll Wake The Insurgency

As CNN's Jack Cafferty and the Washington Post have recently told us, things in Iraq have been positively calm since the June 28th power transfer. In fact, things are so quiet, you could hear a pin drop in Samarra.

Insurgents fired mortar rounds at an Iraqi National Guard headquarters in the city of Samarra on Thursday, killing four U.S. soldiers and one Iraqi guardsman, the military said. A fifth U.S. soldier was unaccounted for and 20 were wounded.

In the 11 days since the power transfer, 24 US soldiers have been killed; in the 11 days prior, 20 soldiers were lost.

Shhhh....