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The total is now 2,997.

Military Times- 42% to 35%.

Sorry I couldn’t be there to see you off, old friend, I have job problems

The insane sectarian provocation was reported on Iraqi television, which could only be received inside the Green Zone. The power was out over the rest of Baghdad.

UPDATE: Car bomb in Shi’ite town kills 34. And December is now the deadliest month of the war this year for US troops.

Saddam Hussein to be hanged within the hour, reports cable news on Friday evening at 8PM CST. The BBC reports rumors of a gallows having been built in the Green Zone, let’s hope that is not true. Hanging Saddam in a US-military controlled area would be pointlessly counterproductive.

UPDATE: US-backed Iraqi TV is reporting that Hussein has been executed, as well as al-Arabiya, reports starting at 9:05 CST. 2,996 US soldiers have now died for this dubious achievement.

The total is now 2991. And 41 bodies were found dumped in one place alone in Baghdad.

This guy refuses even to go to President Ford’s funeral. What is wrong with him?

Woodward has been sitting on this. Another one for the now-he-tells-us department, in the case of both Woodward and Ford. I know of some 3,000 Americans and their families who would have liked to see Ford talk about this in public as a former President, before the decision was made.

Will history grant him a “full, free, and absolute pardon” for his activities in office? Since my position at the time was that Nixon had to be tried for the sake of the country’s future, then I must ask how different would history have been if he had allowed Richard Nixon to face the law for his crimes? If Nixon had been given a fair trial, his number one Watergate defender, RNC head George HW Bush, would never have been able to run for President in 1980, and could never have become President. Without him, no GWB. Ford was selected, not elected, President in order to restore the reputation of this country in the world from the corruption of Watergate, and in that way he accomplished his mission, but what did Ford himself think about his fateful decision on Nixon as he spent the last few years of his life watching Bush destroy our country’s reputation? More importantly, a man of integrity was needed in 1974 when first the Vice President and then the President were proven crooked, and Ford responded; where is our Gerald Ford when we need him now?

While George Bush slept with a belly full of Christmas food at Camp David, three more Americans were killed violently in Iraq. What does the Iraq death toll have to do with the 9/11 death toll? Nothing. Every time someone makes a connection between the two, they are likely reinforcing the idea that the Iraq war was somehow a reaction to 9/11. It was not.

Sistani has decided not to support SCIRI, the only major Shi’ite rival to Moqtada al-Sadr. Bush’s anti-Iraq Study Group plan was to create an alliance with Sistani endorsing Hakim and the SCIRI party, and using them to outmaneuver Sadr. It has failed, and the “way forward” is clear now and inevitable. Sadr is the next ruler or Iraq. Only assassination can stop him, but it can’t stop his movement.