IRAQ UPDATE

I haven't covered this for a while. Really, there's not much to report; the country's still in turmoil; people die on a daily basis. While the reports still continue, interest is (and has been for a while) on the wane.

Does this work for or against Bush? Does it benefit the insurgents?

On the one hand, the lost public interest means Bush doesn't have to listen to the anti-war protestors and their 'bring the troops home' cry. Nor does he spend as much time defending his actions.
On the other, he finds replenishment of troops a little more difficult to obtain as his congress tires of bodybags filling returning transport planes.
And the once staunch support for the cause from allied nations also diminishes as they too take their hands of the wheel and begin to look inward at their domestic concerns.

Meanwhile, Al Qaeda and its martyrs quietly plans. Because no traditional rules of war apply here. This a new breed of enemy, unaffected by public opinion of the infidel. The latest reports that the, considered to be safest/most secure hotel in Bagdad was yet another victim of a suicide bomber. So much for the 'push'!

And so it goes - and will keep 'going' interminably. I'll be reporting on this from time to time for years to come!

To quote a character from Black Hawk Down, "Theese eese how eet eese...in ower world!"