Great blog. Thanks for the link.
No problem. I thoroughly recommend reading Iraqi blogs going back the past two years. It is a graphic depiction of how that country has been comprehensively disintegrating. I like ITM the best. Omar is extremely intelligent and would make a great political analyst. But his is one of the few relatively pro-American blogs (relatively speaking). And even he broke with the rosy view last year as the street-level ethnic cleansing began to emerge and has since devolved into community-level ethnic cleansing.
It is important to read the truth from the "real Iraq". American forces and contractors in the Green Zone and bunkered up on other bases do not live in the same reality (though that reality is still incredibly dangerous). So it became easy for policymakers to dismiss the "ground-truth" as "henny-penny", "chicken-little", "the-sky-is-falling" handwringing.
But even if one doesn't know Iraqis personally who are living this nightmare, just going back over some of those blogs the past two years is evidence enough that America is indeed in a "State of Denial".