Armed men roamed the streets of Baghdad on Friday as the Iraqi capital descended deeper into anarchy, Reuters correspondents in the city said.

Khaled Yacoub Oweis saw a young man wielding a Kalashnikov assault rifle shoot the driver of a passing pickup truck in central Baghdad, drag him from the vehicle and drive it away. It was not clear whether the driver was killed or only wounded.

Oweis said armed men were swarming through a children's hospital in the upscale Mansur district in the west where the bodies of civilians and dead fighters have been collected. They appeared to be looting it, he said.

"The situation has become worse since yesterday. It is anarchy," Oweis said....

--Reuters

But ... but ... but that's impossible! An armed society is a polite society ... right?