Ingrates!

The Iraqi people are ingrates, or so Laura Bush intimates. She recently said:

"Many parts of Iraq are stable now. But, uh, of course, what we see on television is the one bombing a day that discourages everyone."

Because, you know, everything is just going so swimmingly in Iraq. One measly bombing a day? Americans would just laugh it off, right?

Like this one, for instance:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A car bomb exploded Tuesday near a park popular with young soccer players, killing at least 18 boys in a city west of Baghdad known as a center of the Sunni insurgency, police said.

The bomb-rigged car blew apart in central Ramadi late Tuesday afternoon while the boys were playing, and police said those killed were ages 10 to 15. The attack was also reported on Iraqi state television.

Really, what ARE those people complaining about? Why do they keep discouraging us? Why do they inflict these images onto our "beautiful minds"?