and speaking of utter incompetence.... again from slate, we see that we have criminals not just in the politico apparatus, but the military as well.

The Journal mentions a British government report criticizing U.S. tactics in Iraq. "Excessive use by the U.S. forces of overwhelming firepower has also been counterproductive," says the report, "provoking antagonism toward the coalition among ordinary Iraqis."

A piece inside USAT says the Army is about a thousand short of its goal of 8,000 factory-armored Humvees in Afghanistan and Iraq. More interestingly, the Army just increased (for the umpteenth time) the number of such Humvees it wants to 10,000.