Freedom is on the...oh shit!

More miracles from the cradle of Chimpalization.

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 4 - A bomb-laden fuel truck killed eight Iraqi commandos and two other people when it crashed into a checkpoint in western Baghdad about 9 a.m. Tuesday, according to an interior ministry official. Sixty others were wounded in the attack, which happened near the scene of two of the deadly car bombings Monday.

Insurgents also assassinated the governor of Baghdad Tuesday morning, killing Ali al-Haidari after he left his home, the interior ministry said. The Associated Press reported that six of the governor's bodyguards were also killed.

Hours after a wave of bombing attacks that left at least 20 people dead on Monday, Prime Minister Ayad Allawi telephoned President Bush and discussed the many impediments still facing the country as it heads toward elections in 27 days, according to senior American officials familiar with the contents of the call.

The officials insisted that Dr. Allawi, Iraq's interim leader, did not tell Mr. Bush that the elections should be delayed, though his defense minister said in Cairo on Monday that the voting could be postponed to ensure greater participation by Sunnis. "There was no substantive conversation about delay," a senior administration official said. Dr. Allawi, the official said, "wasn't even a bit wobbly" on that point.

But some officials in Washington and in Iraq interpreted the telephone call as a sign that Dr. Allawi, who is clearly concerned his own party could be headed to defeat if the election is held on schedule, may be preparing the ground to make the case for delay to Mr. Bush.

Remember, everytime a bomb goes off in Baghdad, a Neocon gets his pitchfork.