Sweet Serenade. posted by Richard Seymour

Well, the "coalition" have finally located the solution to their ever- and omni-present bane (the Iraqi people). They're going to play heavy metal music for them. They've been playing Jimi Hendrix, the sound of babies crying, men screaming and cars crashing. They really are trying to recreate that Vietnam feeling...

Meanwhile, Bush let slip the biggest open secret of the entire campaign:

"You see, I believe (dramatic pause, hand on chest) that free countries are peaceful countries."

You heard it here first. Iraq is not a free country. (Actually, this is a long-running Bushism, like so many of the quack sound-bites that eventually reach our screens. A google search shows that he's been saying this shit for the last year and a half).

And finally, don't be fooled by all this negative media coverage of Iraq. Things are going well. The uprisings prove it. In fact, according to General Myers, if things weren't going so well, there wouldn't be any uprisings. You are, General, beating your gums together. As even the Thinker President admits, "people don't like being occupied" . Nor do they appreciate having their cities turned to rubble, hundreds of their citizens murdered, and then being told that only bad guys got killed. Still, as a Leninist, I'm vaguely inclined to go along with the General's unique logic. The worse it gets, the better it gets.