Exciting New Feature

Since the republicans have lately been comparing Iraq to World War II, I'm now going to start a day by day comparison to the two wars in a feature I call Today In History: Iraq vs WWII. I think it's important to compare what a competent war time president accomplished against two world powers versus what our current president has accomplished against a tin pot dictator and a few "deadenders."

I should have started this earlier as we have already missed a lot of the milestones from WWII. Today is the 1186th day of the Iraq war, so what happened on the 1186th day of WWII? Normandy, that's long past. The battle of the Bulge, that's been over for three months, no today, we cross the Rhine!! From OnWar.com:

On the Western Front... The leading tanks of US 3rd Corps (part of US 1st Army) reach the Rhine River opposite Remagen and find the Ludendorff Bridge there damaged but still standing. Troops are immediately rushed across and a bridgehead is firmly established during the day. Other elements of the US 1st Army complete the capture of Cologne. Units US 12th Corps from US 3rd Army continue to advance rapidly.

And in the Pacific:

Forces of the US 1st Corps are engaged south of San Fernando. South of Manila, the US 14th Corps is fighting near Balayan Bay and Batangas against the defense lines of the south Luzon Shimbu Group of the Japanese forces.

The famous flag raising on Iwo Jima happened a couple of weeks ago.

Meanwhile in Iraq...Some things blew up. Kinda like yesterday.