The personal face of "victory" in Iraq....

Yeah, let's go do this in Syria, too!

BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 14 — The old man stood waist deep in the grave. Black flies swarmed around his ankles and scattered whenever he plunged his shovel into the dirt.

The body of his brother lay at his feet — mangled, rotting, unrecognizable as human. On a nearby headstone sat a white plastic bag. It held what was left of his sister-in-law, his two nephews and his two young nieces.

"This is the first time I have a dug a grave myself," said the old man, Khali Abbas Ali. His relatives died five days ago when an American missile struck their car.

"The cemetery workers have all left," Mr. Ali, 65, went on. "There is no one around to help, so we must do everything ourselves."...

The whole heartbreaking story is here if you have the stomach to read it.