Meanwhile in the Happy Land that time and the media forgot

After McCain declared victory:

08/26/08 AFP : Blast kills 12 security recruits in Iraq
At least 12 security recruits were killed and 40 wounded in a suicide bomb attack at Jalawla, 150 kilometres north of Baghdad, the defence ministry and police said. The attack targeted a crowd of young Iraqis outside a police recruiting office, they said.

08/26/08 AP: Police say at least 9 killed in blast in Iraq
Iraqi security officials say at least nine people have been killed in the northeastern Diyala province. Tuesday's blast struck the town of Jalula but officials have offered conflicting reports about the circumstances of the explosion...

08/26/08 AFP: Car bomb injures 13 in Saddam's home town
A car bomb in Tikrit, the central Iraq hometown of executed dictator Saddam Hussein, injured 13 people including four policemen on Tuesday, police said.

08/26/08 Reuters: Death toll climbs to 28 killed in N.Iraq blast
A suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest struck a crowd of Iraqi police recruits at a recruitment station in a volatile northern province on Tuesday, killing 28 people and wounding 45, a police source said.