Dear Reader

I am back after three weeks neglecting my blogging duties. What do you know, Voldemort is out pumping up war with Iran again. (Say, does "W" stand for Wormtail?)

I have been over how insanely stupid this is before, but a few things have changed. We are now buying off our Sunni insurgent enemies, as reported by Sudarsan Raghavan in the 04 August, 2007 Washington Post. We are also going after the Shiites, so apparently we have decided to trade enemies from 20% of Iraq to 60% of Iraq. (This is ignoring the polls that say that 80% of Iraqis want us to leave, essentially all the non-Kurds.)

Is this to make things really hard in Iraq before we go after Iran; is it just acknowledging the fact the even though our policies in Iraq has apparently been to prefer Shiite control, they still hate us? Or is it to taunt Iran into providing support to their fellow Shiites, providing an excuse for Cheney's folly?

Look, the majority of the U.S. wants to get the hell out of Iraq, they don't like having got suckered by Bush, Cheney, & Rice last time around, so I hope the country goes apeshit if they try to pull this stunt. You know the rest of the world will. Maybe that will be the end of congressmen weaseling about their support for funding the war, " If we leave there will be chaos." Well, we stayed, we let the BCR run loose, and they want to give us a dose of chaos 10 times as big.