Oh come on, Maliki

What next from Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki? He is overseeing a Shiite takeover of the non-Kurdish two-thirds of that non-country called Iraq. (The Kurds say "Kurdistan" and fly not the Iraqi flag but their own Kurdish flag.) And now Maliki has come up with this ziinger: he wants the US -- currently spending a billion dollars every four days on the Bush war and occupation -- to provide a lot more equipment. Then, he says, "I think that within three to six months our need for American troops will go down dramatically." (Uh huh, and that crunch you hear is hell freezing over.)

So let's see now. The Iraqi military has been infiltrated by Shiite militia members. The police are even more infiltrated by same militia members. So we should further arm these guys so that they can continue to stoke the civil war. And once they have hit the Sunnis so hard that the Saudis jump into the ring, we will have reached total chaos.

George W. Bush has dug a colossasl pit with no good exit. George McGovern at least has a sensible exit: Get out within the next six months, starting now.