Finding the nugget of corn in a steaming pile of shit. And, not ignoring the shit is unAmerican...

Next up: Iraq has achieved 110% of its tractor output quota under the 5-year plan.

I think its time for the President to address the nation and tell us about this welcome and thrilling turn of events, and give us his plan for wrapping up operations over there.

This is exactly what we should have been doing day 1. We fired all the government employees and created a massive unemployed force of ex soldiers and ex workers. If we had kept all of Saddam's state industries running, the insurgency wouldn't have anyone in it besides hard core anti occupationists. By firing all those government workers, we gave safe houses to the insurgency.

OK that's funny :)

In a few short years, Iraq's near permanent refusal to invest in their oil infrastructure (since at least 1979) means that their economy is going to stall out and die. Already the oil fields in production since 1938 are running out (according ELF Aquitaine). The quality of the oil is faltering and what's left is imperiled by water intrusion and high sulfur content which will destroy the very equipment used to get it out of the ground. Only a 7th of the land is arable and permanent crops account for < 0.66% of the total land. In short - w/o oil they can't feed themselves. And yet this almost nonexistent agriculture accounts for 92% of their total fresh water consumption. Iraq was screwed a long time ago. It's over for them. Insane dictatorship doesn't really work out long run.

hee hee.

Pointed, though. Obviously a terrible choice of words by the military's press corp.

"sniper fire of martgage crisis intervention" - heee hee. Daily show worthy.

I've been sorely missing Tim Grieve's sebsibilities in War Room, but Farhad Manjoo could be a great replacement. Short, to the point, and funny. Love it. Keep it up!

corner. Now it's just a matter of mopping up the thugs and dead-enders. Bring it on.

What number of jobs are the Coalition flacks variously calling "an explosion" or "a boom"? Turns out that information is readily available in the news releases: 3,500 jobs soon and, ultimately, 7,500. Including those numbers would have given Salon readers a chance to decide for themselves if they are indeed laughably low. As it is, this item just looks a little unprofessional.

This administration continues to render parody obsolete.

If you're trying to rebuild a country, wouldn't the brick factory be one of the first things you'd get operating rather than waiting six years? Oh right, it wasn't privatized. Can't have bricks produced the wrong way in neocon laissez-faire heaven.