Now it's Shiite against Shiite ... and we are saddling up with the Sunnis (I think) and possibly even al-Qaida! What next?

Shiites duking it out in Basra

Quick! Cheney, McCain and Bush must be frothing at the bit. Let's bring in the US Marines! A hundred years, hell! We'll stay a thousand years if that's what it takes to stop this civil war between and among ...

uhhh ... Shiites?

How many of you noticed that a milestone of sorts (4,000 of our service members being killed) was reached this week--while trying to separate the various elephants charging about in Iraq? And what was playing endlessly on the newscasts of nearly all of the cable TV channels in our living rooms?

Right! It was either a scene of Hillary dodging bullets (her story) while deplaning in Bosnia a dozen years ago or yet one more re-run of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright saying "God Damn America" in some inane sermon six or seven years ago in South Chicago.

And, oh yes ...

What was behind all of the TV video footage relating to ... nipple rings?

Lord love a duck!