So as Preznit Insular Idiot roves around the Gulf Coast looking for, as MoDo puts it, another "bullhorn moment" that Other Gulf isn't looking too swift either. The difference there is that we've all been aware of the incompetance and shitty leadership from the 1600 Crew et.al., for what, going on Three and a Half Years now?

Insurgents killed more than 141 people Wednesday in at least 10 separate bombings and rocket attacks that made for one of Baghdad's deadliest days.

Targets included crowds of Iraqi civilians and at least three U.S. military convoys. The deadliest attack, in a northwest Baghdad neighborhood, exploded among crowds of Shiite Muslim day laborers gathered to look for work. Iraq's Interior Ministry spokesman, Col. Adnan Abdul-Rahman, said 90 people were killed.

Just as there were looters in the wake of Katrina, there were those memorable days of lawlessness in Iraq after the fall of Saddam. But lawlessness was OK back then (stuff happens!), as long as the Oil Ministry was secure. Massive stores of conventional weapons disappeared from armories controlled by the newly unemployed Sunni military, many of whom, dollars to donuts are some of the same "insurgents" or "terrorists" or whatever the label du jour is today.

These guys have learned the lessons that all opposition folks who use violence to promote an agenda learned long ago: the best way to use force is do it visibly and often (reverse shock and awe!). In the days leading up to the October 15th referendum, these attacks will become even more violent and more visible. The folks carrying out these attacks, or at least planning them worry little about losses of their soldiers, the 1600 Crew has supplied them with a ready-made group of recruits; everytime that Preznit Whitebread opens his mouth about "terrorists" he's talking about a demographically diverse group of men of Muslim faith. He's declared war on them personally and unlike his cowardly, deserting punk ass, they're willing to die for their convictions...I'm guessing there's a real low AWOL rate amongst Mujahadeen.

And they've declared war on US over there. The question is how long before they bring that war here, despite all the money we've given to all of the friends, contributors, lackeys and toadies of the 1600 Crew to "keep us safe"? Katrina has shown that the emperor has no clothes. Another catastrophic event will show that the only thing in the threadbare Imperial Closet was Ken Mehlman writing checks to the Swift Boaters, and other than that it's has been pretty empty since January 2001, and finding it out that way will be worse than just 'pretty bad'.

The still-uncaught Osama Bin Laden smiles everyday as he gets hooked up to his dialysis machine and thanks Allah that he gets to see Beloved Leader for what he is: Osama's Greatest Success Story.