http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1991414,00.html

There’s so much spin going on here, you can measure it in RPMs:

Best … quote … ever.

See previous: al-Sadr and al-Maliki not getting along? It looks like the Old War Dog site is going to be taking up a lot more of my time than usual for a little while. I’m not going to quit posting…

Terry McAuliffe says Hillary Clinton is America’s Margaret Thatcher. Try not to bust a kidney laughing too hard if you follow the link. Jules Crittenden: The Next Holocaust Will Be Different. Bill Roggio’s back in Iraq. Has PM Maliki had……

Al-Maliki is said by aides to have told Bush that he wants the Iraqi army and police to be in the lead, but he would no longer prevent U.S. attempts to stifle the Mahdi Army.

Is that anything like saying, send in the Daisy Cutters?

The Americans don’t act on rumors but on accurate intelligence.

One word (or is it three?): WMD

Though they are probably right in this case, they still have a ways to go before I will trust them again. Bushes change of heart on domestic surveillance doesn’t help the cause.

Then again, we have not been attacked since 911, so they must be doing something right. I’m torn.

Did he really change his mind? Allahpundit calls it too optimistic, but I am hopeful. But al-Maliki reportedly had a change of heart in
late November while going into a meeting in Jordan with President Bush.
It has since been disclosed that the……