Simply amazing. Just when I thought that I could not read another amazing Iraqi war fact, one pops out. Seems that one of the points that the Political Division of the 1600 Crew aka the "Mayberry Machiavelli's" have tried to make the crowning jewel in the War is the happy smiliing kiddie faces in their schools. All those mentions by the Miserable Failure of schoolchildren orgasmically happy to be in school again. Seems that someone in the post-combat-free planning zone, which I think encompasses everything from the Pentagram to Northwest DC, forgot to plan for logistical security.

One of the most valued commodities in Iraq were good old number 2 pencils...virtually unavailable while sanctions were imposed, I guess for their Graphite content (?)...nukes from pencils? Okay. But it gets better:

The smiling children swarmed the theater at Al Farouq Secondary School and grabbed at the stacks of navy shoulder bags. A gift from the American government, the bags were stocked with goodies such as notebooks, rulers, geometry sets, and a real treat -- premium-quality No. 2 pencils, something that had been hard to come by under the previous regime.
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In the Bush administration's grand plan for rebuilding Iraq, the delivery of the student kits is one of its more visible projects. ...
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Route maps and delivery plans must be reworked constantly on the news -- or rumor -- of the day, a reality that has thrown both timetables and price tags askew.
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In the psyche of even the youngest Iraqi schoolchild, pencils have a special symbolism. Bad pencils equal sanctions. Ever since the international community imposed restrictions on foreign trade on Saddam Hussein's government after the Persian Gulf War in 1991, it's been difficult to import school supplies. And Iraqi-made pencils wouldn't sharpen, smeared easily and couldn't be erased.
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Meanwhile, the casualties -- a total of six military, four contract drivers killed -- and thefts -- everything from bottled water to construction equipment -- have military commanders scrambling to devise a new distribution strategy that tries to get as many people off the roads as possible. The Army 's Stultz said that soon more supplies will be moved through the Iraqi rail system and a new airbase north of Baghdad.

If getting a blowjob by Monica ever caused a single US fatality, please tell me about it...if going to war and getting men and women killed over NUMBER 2 pencils does not make you rage, you are either emotionally crippled, a brain-dead kool-aid afficianado, or a GOP Team Leader.