Clint Eastwood is still up for Oscars, so his war support is not anything near what we would like to think.

But when "Walnuts" spends the last few weeks planting his decrepit lips upon the asses of the likes of James Dobson and Jerry Fallwell, well, the Straight Truth Express has run off the rails.

I only wish this American public would tank someone who yammered incessently about the wonders of American Imperialism.

Hmmm Edwards wants to sell his house. Turns the details over to a broker and thanks to them ends up selling at a profit well within what anyone would get under the same circumstances. Whoa, he made a profit like some citizen who isn't a complete moron. What a scandal!

Imagine the Post article if Edwards had totally mismanaged the property and sold it at a horrible loss. The Post and other MSM would be on him like flies calling him shit for being such a fool and incompetent whose populist roots obviously blinds him to making any intelligent economic decisions. And we would never want to elect a president who can't succeed in financial matters, right?

Oh yeah, never mind.

Someone needs to really ask why so called journalists are attacking Presidential candidates for acting on the advice their business pages hands out to any average American. And most of all why a man who sells his home at a profit to a family he doesn't know is castigated while the past six years of the most blatant conflicts of interest are either given a pass or a tepid "I say dear man" and only when they know such protest will fall on deaf ears because no one has the power to stop them. How is it that the Post is so self righteous when it is the most weak and so ugly and vindictive when it should be most fair.

The Washington Post our motto "We go in after the battle to knife the wounded."

I actually impressed. The Dems make a bold campaign promise and not just meet it, but beat the clock; accomplishing more in 87 hours then the GOP ruled House did in the past six years. But how can that be? Didn't the MSM tell us just days after the election that Pelosi had lost control over the House? Weren't the Dems supposed to be so splintered and lacking in a unified position to accomplish anything other than squabbling and disarray?

While I'll quibble about the Student Loan bill for doing more for outgoing grads than incoming ones, it was a substantive bill with a real impact. Same with the oil tax rollbacks, the minimum wage bill, ethics changes, prescription negotiation power. We can all argue that they don't go far enough, but they are a real change. Evidence that Pelosi made her compromises quickly in order to avoid stalemate. Best of all, save for the Gator Day bill, not an empty symbolic bill among them, no flag burning, praise Jesus, Moms and puppy dog protection acts in the bunch.

No wonder that even a Fox News poll shows Dem popularity rising.

Give us, meaning an army and police totally unready to fight, with a thirty to forty percent AWOL rate, and infiltrated to the max with Shia militia members, all the arms and armor we can have and in six months or so you should get out while we: give the arms and armor to our Shia militias, sell ten to thirty percent on the black market to finance our exile slush fund if things don't work out (it's not like we've never been exiles before) and use what's left to ethnically cleanse as many Sunnis as we can still find alive before they flee to the borders.

Maliki's request is nothing but a demand to side with an arm a Shia civil war against the Sunni minority. The country is awash in arms and the government is unwilling to buy them up or stop the corruption that puts them in the marketplace because they are the ones who put them there. They are also the ones who allow the official military and police to remain weak and poorly led while milking them for all their worth to arm and train their personal militias that keep them in power. That is the story on the ground.

In Vietnam one of the biggest difficulties in getting the South Vietnamese Army to fight the Vietcong was the failure to understand or solve the problem that they were used as personal militias by various military and political leaders who wanted to keep them close to Saigon to vie for and protect their power. Iraq is no different.

Bush's administration does seem to get this, and while the Cheney Darwinism plan may support more arms to the Shia, someone else in the administration is being very miserly with arms supplies until Maliki's government can demonstrate it's military and police really are dedicated to defending the country and not some politician's tribe. Unfortunately the executions of Saddam and his relatives has only proven to the Sunnis, rival Shias and most of all Sunnis that this is a government of a single faction, bent on revenge for past slights, and aggrandizing as much power for themselves as our government is willing to supply them with.

Give Maliki's army and police more weapons? Bush might as well declare that his new way forward is to side with the Mahdi Army against all other tribes in the region and hope they win and stop hating us; you know like the way Iran stopped hating us when we supplied them all those military arms during Iran-Contra.

Yeah, that turned out real well.

"Do you see any parallels here?"

Now that I think about it, that new WWII memorial in Washington DC looks like something Albert Speer would have been proud of. I'm sure our upcoming Iraq Victory Memorial will be equally Imperial Rome like.