Right now, I'm trying to relax and let the impending wave of war-on-terrah-related news arrive. As the White House begins its offensive to scare the shit out of everybody, there will be an increase in the number of terror alerts, terrorist arrests, plots foiled, Internet chatter, and broadcasts from either bin Laden or al-Zawahiri.

And guess what? We've gotten another "senior official" of al-Qaeda. Or rather, I should say, the Iraqi "forces" have done this crack job, thus seriously weakening the organization that formerly did not exist in Iraq. It's wonderful news, I'm sure, for three obvious reasons: 1) Dick Cheney can now say that al-Qaeda and therefore the other insurgents are in their real last throes; 2) Bush can say that Iraqi forces are doing their job on their own and his plan is working and our Iraqi Expedition is going to succeed; 3) the Iraqi puppet government can lay the blame of sectarian violence (all of it, mind you) on the doorstep of al-Qaeda and advance the fiction of how that group is behind all the mayhem and murder.

Of course, we've heard this bullshit before, but bullshit always works with scores and scores of red state fucks who don't want to admit their man in the White House is wrong or anything. So they, like the president, will latch onto whatever news there is, seriously believing that we've turned another corner and things aren't as bad as the horrible, liberal media is pretending.

Meanwhile, more people were killed today in a mortar attack. But it's not civil war, mind you, because Bush says it's not civil war, so that must be the reality.

Whatever.