Our Sleepy Media is Missing this Obviously its hard for our corporate media overlords on Cable to keep up with all these stories, but isn't military defeat one of those things, even if it happens to an ally as opposed to American troops? The AP is reporting that the alleged ragtag, group of dead-enders, the fighters loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr drove Italian forces from a base in the southern city of Nasiriyah on Sunday and attacked coalition headquarters there with grenade and mortar fire as tensions in the Shiite region escalated. Let's repeat this more slowly...these insurgents drove a well-armed, well-trained group of soldiers off their goddamned base! I should have known, as DeDurkheim noted yesterday Charles "German Hammer" when not engaging in arm-chair malpractice by diagnosing mental illness in liberals, was talking on one of the gabfest about how amazing it was that Iraq was not exploding over the charges of Abu Ghraib...all while ignoring the fact that it was ready too. There has been a pattern ever since "our Chimperor" said "bring 'em on", some conservative fallator says, "gee everything seems to be going swimmingly over there" followed by substantial evidence to the contrary. Now I doubt al-Sadr is watching "Inside Washington" so I'll chalk it up to Krauthammer's stupidity over a connection (I'll leave the conservatives to that whole idea of "the left costing us the war" they like that canard and its all theirs). From my armchair perspective, I diagnose Krauthammer as suffering from a affective disorder and bi-polarity. I believe the DSM-IV would characterize him as "Crazy for Coco Puffs".