[Yardstick]

Is Burns' original article posted on FR? I'd like to read it, but I don't have an account with the NYT so I can't follow the link.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

"If the Americans, the British or the Italians leave Iraq, we will be handed back to the flunkies of Saddam, the Baathists and Al Qaeda will take over our cities,"

More comfirmation of Al Qaeda in Iraq.

[Verginius Rufus]

It's good to be reminded of Mike Kelly...we are missing a lot because of his death...and Barbara Olson's...and Jeff MacNelly's.