Iraq? What's Iraq?

Unforgivable.

Most American young people can't find Iraq on a map, even though U.S. troops have been there for more than three years, according to a new geographic literacy study released on Tuesday.

Fewer than 4 in 10 Americans aged 18-24 in a survey could place Iraq on an unlabeled map of the Middle East, a study conducted for National Geographic found. Only about one-quarter of respondents could find Iran and Israel on the same map.

But I suspect this is exactly why Bush's Middle-East petry dish PNAC experiment has been protracted this long without a commanding majority of outraged Americans screaming for heads to roll and a mitigating course correction. BushCo would like nothing more than to keep as many Americans as ignorant as possible.

Afghani-what? A Sunni? Is that a designer purse? What-eva...I'm going to the mall.