Some quick snippets from the Washington Post:

Two U.S. soldiers were killed and three were wounded Monday when a council member opened fire on them after a meeting in a small town south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

An Iraqi interpreter also was wounded in the shooting in Salman Pak Nahia, which is about 20 miles south of Baghdad, said Capt. Charles Calio, a U.S. military spokesman.

Two Salman Pak residents identified the assailant, who was killed, as council member Raed Hmood Ajil.

Residents Rafi Suleiman, 39, and Abu Dawood said in phone interviews that Ajil, a Sunni tribal leader, opened fire on the soldiers without provocation.

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Also Monday, the U.S. military announced that a Canadian man working as an interpreter for the U.S. military in Iraq was sentenced to five months of confinement after pleading guilty in the stabbing of a colleague in February.

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On Sunday, a suicide bomber killed 15 people in Baqubah, the capital of Diyala. In a town north of the provincial capital, 10 members of an Awakening Council, or armed neighborhood watch group, were killed when their office was attacked with mortars Sunday night, according to Lt. Gen. Abdul Kareem al-Rubaie, the commander of the province's security operations center.

I realize that war doesn't always go according to plan.  Unfortunately, the people that brought our troops in to this endless meatgrinder didn't really bother with such things as plans in the first place.

And now, thanks to the GAO, the pentagon is learning the cold truth of W's plan - to foist this mess onto his successor:

More broadly, the GAO said the Bush administration has not planned adequately for the end of the U.S. troop build-up that began in early 2007 and is now winding down.

Although administration officials have spoken about goals for Iraq, they have not specified a new strategy to follow the troop buildup, the GAO said.

Who needs a plan when you can skip town?