“Starkly put, Baghdad is not under control, either by the Iraqi interim government or the American military.” – John F. Burns, New York Times, today.
QUOTE FOR THE DAY II: “Our grunts have been letting me know since the early days of the invasion that there has never been enough people power on deck to do the job. ‘We’re stretched too thin’ has been a constant complaint. ‘Battalions are doing the work of brigades and brigades divisions,’ snorts an infantry skipper now in the Mosul area of operations.” – David Hackworth, yesterday.
RELEASED WITHOUT CHARGE: The final four Brits in Guantanamo were immediately released by the British government upon returning to the UK. They are charging torture. No formal charges of terrorism have been brought against them. Either we should be deeply concerned that potential terrorists are now at large or that innocent men have been held without any due process for three years and, if they were not British, would still be in jail. Which is it?
FEITH QUITS: For personal reasons, the official press release says.
BUSTER’S BLOG: The material that offended Margaret Spellings. Located by Josh Marshall.
ANTI-SEMITISM WATCH: A blogger reports on a not-very encouraging listserv for the Muslim Student Union at the University of Southern California.
The Dish 