Over at the Agonist, a brief primer on the new Iraqi Interior Minister.
It's going to get ugly people, the cease fire negotiations are only to buy time.
Take the election poll. and ask Bush to decline the Republican Nomination.
It only says you have to seriously consider whoever they nominate in his place.
I'm digging in to the interior politics of the Iraq governing council - it is clear that Bremer has shuffled the dissenters away from power, and the US has signalled that it is going to escalate the conflict by selling weapons, both to the Iraqi governing council - and to mercenaries.