Remember to take the election poll.
Afternoon update. The US is reaching a point of critical pressure, as even moderates are blasting the military solution to Sadr and Fallujah. While Kut is back in US hands, falling to a helicopter gunship tipped assault that levelled buildings - Najaf is still in rebel hands, as is Karabala, most of Fallujah, and part of the highway out of Baghdad.
Here at home response to Rice's testimony was muted. While the left has acid comments about her testimony she said what lots of people wanted to hear: "We could not have known". That isn't the opinion of the commission, which has come to the conclusion that something could have been done to prevent 911. But the American people are hopped up on jobs, and don't want to hear that yet.
What I am watching is Sadr's called for strike, if he gets a mass movement going, and larger and larger support, then Iraq becomes ungovernable quickly. If not, he will have to hold on for dear life.
Political pressure is rising in Europe to take the US out of the driver's seat, particularly with regard to the obvious thatcherization of the country the US intends to pull off. England's government is in crisis, and that will not make it easy. The Conservative Coalition - Blair, Bush, Howard, Nozumi - is feeling Berlusconi's defection and Aznar's defeat heavily. South Korea is in, only as long as their constitutional coupsters can hold power, which, according to election polls, is not for much longer.
We live in interesting times.
In a very chinese sort of way.