I think TV ruined my brain.

Never mind the beer, etc.

Scatterbraining for a moment: The Moderate Voice has a new look. I like it. I just went over there to see what the moderates had to say before deciding on my own extreme position.

Let's hope this line from an article Joe links proves true, "The 30-year-old al-Sadr, however, does not have a large following among majority Shiites many see him as a renegade, too young and too headstrong to lead wisely."



Hugh Hewitt read this on the air last night:

April 5, 2004, 9:55PM

A soldier assures us: Our progress is amazing
By JOE ROCHE

Thesis:
The news you are hearing stateside is awfully depressing and negative. The reality is we are accomplishing a tremendous amount here, and the Iraqi people are not only benefiting greatly, but are enthusiastically supportive.

And Hewitt has this to say today:

This phase in the war on terror has brought us into near-direct conflict with the mullahs governing the theocracy next door, the ones with the nuclear ambitions that must be thwarted. America would prefer to help the Iraqis build a democracy that would put pressure on the Iranian regime to reform, and the radicals in Teheran know the consequences of such a state on their border. So the big push to seize the new Iraq for radical Islam is underway.

The reporters...are right to write about those who want Iran and its brand of theocracy to rise in Baghdad, but wrong to omit the huge resistance within Iraq to such a turn of events. It may well be a very tough six months to a year ahead, but as President Bush said Monday, those months present a challenge which the United States cannot afford to fumble.


Read this post from ginmar, who spent the night pinned down in Kut.