What if "victory" actually meant "everybody gets blown up, probably on purpose, and then Exxon harvests the oil"? Then we would have victory, that's what!

* On the Hill, 50 active-duty U.S. troops delivered or will deliver a petition signed by 1,000 active-duty U.S. troops demanding an end to the Iraqi occupation. We're not sure if this already happened, because of course none of the cable-news channels will show the video.

* The WSJ blog item about the troops' demand is taking very heavy fire from fat-asses who bravely type demands for victory.

* The Pentagon is selling "sensitive weapons" and fighter-plane parts to Iran.

* Just like in the 1980s!

* Today's Baghdad death toll: four U.S. troops and over a hundred Iraqis. Some 34,000 Iraqi civilians were killed in 2006, mostly from gunshots.

* Hillary's pissed off because John Edwards sort of implied she's a bloodthirsty monster who will personally kill off the last civilians in Iraq.