Another corner turned?

We've turned so many damned corners in Iraq that we don't even know which way we're facing.

Iraqi Parliament Approves New Cabinet

BAGHDAD, May 20--Iraq's parliament swore in its full-term prime minister and his cabinet Saturday, a political milestone U.S. leaders hope will allow a new government to begin solving the country's problems and lead to the eventual withdrawal of U.S. troops.

Meanwhile, back in reality:

As the negotiations went forward, at least 17 Iraqis were killed in bombings and other attacks Friday, the Associated Press reported.

In the Shiite holy city of Najaf, the situation became increasingly tense a day after police killed a local commander of the Mahdi Army, a militia run by the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Men in cars attacked several police checkpoints and patrols with grenades and gunfire, killing at least one officer and wounding several others. The police imposed a curfew.

[Early Saturday in Baghdad, a bomb exploded in the Shiite slum of Sadr City, killing 19 people and wounding 58 near a food stand where men gather to wait for jobs as day laborers, the AP reported.]

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