It's ours for the taking.
Good news out of Iraq is becoming almost a daily event: In just the past week, we learned that U.S. combat fatalities (five) dropped in July to a low for the war, that key leaders of al Qaeda in Iraq have fled to the Pakistani hinterland, that troop deployments will soon be cut to 12 months from 15, and that Washington and ( Read more... )

Seriously, isn't it way, way past time to send him to his 72 virgins?

Colin Powell might have been too wimpy to give the order but Rice should reach back into the Cold War playbook and arrange for a unfortunate accident for this man.


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Without such radicals in the government it would allow Iraq to move forward.
BAGHDAD (AP) - Cabinet ministers loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr quit the government Monday, severing the powerful Shiite religious leader from the U.S.-backed prime minister and raising fears al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia might again confront American troops.
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Seriously.
BAGHDAD (AP) - The powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his militiamen on Sunday to redouble their battle to oust American forces and argued that Iraq's army and police should join him in defeating "your archenemy."

He should have been liquidated in 2003.

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And this should have been done almost four years ago.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's prime minister has dropped his protection of an anti-American cleric's Shiite militia after U.S. intelligence convinced him the group was infiltrated by death squads, two officials said Sunday ( Read more... )

Incidents like this demonstrate that he is no friend of the west, no friend of democracy and no friend of the new Iraqi government.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A British military helicopter crashed in Basra on Saturday, and Iraqis hurled stones at British troops and set fire to three armored vehicles that rushed to the scene. Clashes broke out between ( Read more... )