150 dead in Iraq

I'm beginning to think that the Bush administration won't offer up a timetable out of Iraq not because it will aid the terrorists, but that they really have no frickin' clue as to when things on the ground will be safe enough for us to go.

This is the thing we are supposed to be protecting the people against, remember:

Insurgents launched more than a dozen suicide bombings, assassinations and execution-style killings in Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 151 people and wounding more than 300.

Al Qaeda in Iraq, a group led by militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, apparently has said it is responsible, saying the attacks are in retaliation for the U.S.-Iraqi offensive in the northern city of Tal Afar. U.S. and Iraqi forces launched the operation last month to root out insurgents in the border city near Syria.