While we talk of politics and the latest bushism, things are possibly unravelling in Iraq. Moktada al-Sadr is calling for uprising to "Fight the blasphemous, fight the Americans".
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/05/international/middleeast/05CND-IRAQ.html?hp
The death toll is rising again
http://www.juancole.com
http://www.icasualties.org/oif/
The reason it is reality for me? I am spending the weekend with my oldest Marine son who will be heading over for his second Iraq tour (first was during the "major combat operations") in a couple of weeks.
My signature line has never been more important than now. Damn the whole f ing cabal!