U.S. Military Returns to War Tactics (washingtonpost.com):"In a...public relations push to highlight what it deems to be successes in Iraq -- he showed a picture at a news conference on Thursday of the shot-up truck next to two bodies covered by black shrouds.....'The Americans want to follow the Israeli plan,' said Hamed Hassan, an elderly resident of Hawijat Ali. 'It doesn't work there. Why will it work here?' "

Right, the war was over. Now we're starting it again. Dead bodies are great PR and proof of US success.