Attacks in Iraq

Iraq is not the safest place in the world to work - I don't think I'd take a job there. This crowd attacked some foreign workers for no apparent reason, and hung their charred corpses from a bridge, whilst cheering. I would ascribe it to terrorists attacking soft targets, but in this case it's mobs attacking soft targets. Obviously this is not the opinion of the majority in Iraq, but when crowds murder innocents based on paranoid fantasies, there is clearly a problem. We cannot leave Iraq in the mess it's in now anytime soon, delusions that this is a replay of Germany in WWII notwithstanding. When law and order is such there that such crowds would not dare do this kind of thing - whether they want to or not - then we'll be getting somewhere. But is it the case that the administration merely sees Iraq as a notch to boost Bush's popularity, and did not, and is still not, handling Iraq with a useful plan?