6/25    From Matt Taibibibib
        Q: How long will it take for the Democrat hopefuls to realize that
           they cannot simply pull out of Iraq?

        A: I saw an old episode of 'Homicide: Life on the Street' on the
           Sleuth channel the other night. In it a highly annoying Vince
           D'Onofrio falls between a subway car and the subway platform
           and he gets stuck there, with the train basically holding his
           guts in. The medics come in and they look at him and realize
           that if they move the train at all, his guts are going to fall
           out and he's going to die. But if they do nothing, he's going
           to slowly lose blood pressure and die. Either way, he's going
           to die. Iraq is Vince D'Onofrio. It doesn't overact as much,
           but it's just as fucked. The bloodbath is coming as soon as we
           leave, whether that's now or 20 years from now. But I'd be
           interested to hear your argument explaining how things are
           going to improve by us staying and spending a billion bucks a
           day or whatever playing Play Station in air conditioned trailers
            behind twenty-foot walls while Iraqis have six hours of
            electricity and pee into buckets and get their throats slit as
            soon as night falls. You're probably right, a few more years of
            that, and this Sunni-Shia hatred thing will pass.