Here's Kanaan Makiya's journal entry from yesterday. I love his optimism in the face of such horror, it keeps me going. And he tells the tale of young Iraqis who feel left out of the war to liberate their country, and are heading to Iraq now. What a refreshing thing to read! This is what I expected Iraqis to do, rather than the idiots in Jordan who went in to defend the regime that drove them out.... unless it was just for the cameras.... who knows anymore?

Makiya ended with this rather troubling statement: "Meanwhile, the body known as the Iraqi Interim Authority has not yet been designed, even though no one knows how close or how distant we are from regime change. Jay Garner's reconstruction team is gathered at a Kuwaiti beachside hotel creating spreadsheets of reformed government ministries while the Iraqi opposition is in limbo in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan. Misunderstanding and confusion are the order of the day."