After a two month hiatus, Riverbend is back online with a new blog entry. She comments on the Lancet report showing over 600,000 Iraqis have died since the Codpiece invaded that country.

"This has been the longest time I have been away from blogging. There were several reasons for my disappearance the major one being the fact that every time I felt the urge to write about Iraq, about the situation, I'd be filled with a certain hopelessness that can't be put into words and that I suspect other Iraqis feel also."