  So we gave the city of Fallujah back to the Baathists. Now we might make Sadr part of the government and allow the Mahdi Army to be incorporated into the Iraqi security forces. Check out urlLink The New York Times: Several Iraqis Dead After Clashes With U.S. Near Najaf . That's just brilliant. The various Iraqi insurgencies are 2 for 2 now. You think they might get the idea that if you fight the Americans, you get what you want? Thanks to Bush's disasterous policies, the military was put in a Catch-22. Continuing to fight merely pisses more people off and strengthens the insurgency. Caving in (the better option, and the one chosen for once) encourages the militants and rewards them for spreading mayhem. So how is all this ad hoc bargaining going to affect the post-handover government? Will Fallujah be a self-governing enclave?
Will Sadr, thanks to his private army, be the de facto ruler of southern Iraq? Does Bush have his head up his ass? Hint: at least one of these questions has a definitive affirmative answer. Of course, the administration continues to ignore these major problems in its public statements. Listening to Bush's speech the other night (or reading excerpts, as I did, because listening to his monkey ass makes my blood boil), and his simple "5-step plan," you'd think that none of this stuff had ever happened. I just wish that Bush would admit, for once, that he's fucked everything up... 
