Keith Devens .com

So many must-read things today

• I linked to this at Iraq the Model earlier, but on del.icio.us, not here.
• Steven Den Beste writes about Kerry's European endorsements. All the followup links he posts are good, including accounts of German meddling, great comments from Brian Tiemann, and a completely different kind of foreign endorsement, but for President Bush. Definitely read that last one.
• Roger Simon: Kofi Annanymous
• Captain Brian Chontosh - Someone You Should Know. A real hero. But he didn't abuse Iraqi prisoners, so you probably won't hear about him in the news. I originally read about this on Jeff Moore's blog.
• Iraqis march to protest al-Sadr: "NAJAF, Iraq -- About 1,000 people, including a few women in black veils, marched through the streets of Najaf on Tuesday to urge radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his followers to leave the city."
• And then... Iraqi Shiite Cleric Al-Sadr Offers to End Insurgency
• Michael Ubaldi has great comments:

Securing Iraq — to a point where only borders and wastelands are considered unsafe, the best we could expect for a country surrounded by hostile regimes — is far from complete. Given what has been accomplished after one year, I would consider eighteen months to two years a minimum amount of time necessary for Western military might and emerging Iraqi common good and civil enforcement to grind Ba'athist holdovers and in-country foreign terrorists into the ground. But the two objectives of 2004's Bloody April — capturing Iraqi support in the confusion and shocking Americans into panic and retreat — were not met. Politically, strategically and especially tactically, the Khomeinist-Ba'athist offensive failed

Last three links via Glenn. You should read almost everything else there.

• The British prisoner abuse photos appear to have been faked.
• Interesting stuff on job numbers from the Bush blog. The Bush blog is actually surprisingly good.

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