A quickie for a Monday:

I'm back and the world, for better or worse is still here.
:)
If Joshua Micah Marshall is to be believed, Rummie's candidate for post Saddam leader, one Achmed Chalabi is tear-assing around the Iraqi countryside with his trusty militia looking for Hussein and his sons.
Images of "The Rat Patrol" come charging to mind with the nasty monotone of Donald Rumsfeld blaring out from Achmed's satellite phone "bring im' back dead or alive!"
Somehow nabbing Saddam is supposed to make Chalabi, otherwise a hapless moneygrubbing milksop a hero to the Arab street.
This more than anything else is good evidence of the sheer dreamworld that Donald Rumsfeld inhabits....that a starving thirsty peonage will carry Chalabi on their shoulders to the Presidential palace once he produces the head of Saddam Hussein.
In fact Chalabi is looking more and more like "Colonel Kit Coyote" the blustery cavalry officer from the old "Underdog" cartoon.
Oh he may get Saddam, if "getting" Saddam is defined as signing an invoice from the U.S. Special Forces.