The recent attacks in Baghdad making the news aren't really NEW. Now are they?

I am not going to beleaguer the point. I have said for years that Iraq is a CIVIL WAR. This latest 'exacerbation' illustrates it clearly. Iraq is in a Civil War. You don't believe it YET?

I don't care if a member of al Qaeda is involved. It was a Sunni attack on Shi'ites. Al Qaeda is just another brand for the same thing. In Iraq its supposed to be the most vicious of the Sunni organizations. That doesn't mean that much. It simply means the Sunnis need an organization to counter balance the USA occupation. That is all that means.

These provinces want to split. They need to do that. It will save lives. The BEST evidence of the Civil War is the issues surrounding Kurkuk. The USA has no interest within that country. It has other bases nearby. Where do you think the 'No Fly Zones' were enforced from?

The international community, including the USA, doesn't want to see the provinces have their own sovereignty because there wouldn't be anyone to pay their bills. Ask what the central authority in Baghdad actually does for the people of Iraq. What do they do? They don't even provide security. After all, it was Maliki himself that doesn't want the USA to exit. It isn't the people that want the USA to stay, it's Maliki and his need for his own militia AGAINST the people of Iraq.

Here is what is going to happen and why Gerald Ford was right all along. The USA will remove their soldiers supposedly after the next major elections. The elections will go as planned and the USA will depart having lost soldiers between now and then. After the USA is out of Iraq the 'control' of the country will be handed over to the Iraqi military/police.

Do you actually believe on Day 2 after the USA leaves Iraq, the central authority will still having meaning? I don't. For years since Bush invaded that country, an illegal invasion that gives a lot of moral authority to the opposition, there have been 'community' level organization to protect themselves. Those organizations the West likes to call militias have been developing authority among the people.

On Day 2, the central authority in Baghdad will be meaningless and for some time things might go along as if nothing has changed, but, something will definately have changed. The 'Iraq military/police' will shift their loyalty and return to the people the control they have longed for since March of 2003.

Then one day.

The news headlines will read, "Anarchy has returned to Iraq."

And it will be over.

There will be a major confrontation between the strongest organizations and the central authority will be completely meaningless.


A man injured in a suicide bombing gets treatment in the Kazimiyah hospital in Baghdad, Iraq. Photograph: Khalid Mohammed/AP

Suicide bombs kill scores in Baghdad (click here)
At least 60 die near Shia shrine following arrest of suspected al-Qaida in Iraq leader
At least 60 people were killed and more than 125 injured this morning when two suicide bombers detonated explosive vests near the most important Shia Muslim shrine in Baghdad.
The attacks came 24 hours after a volley of explosions killed more than 80 people in Iraq's deadliest day in months, and raised fears of a fresh wave of sectarian violence following a period of relative calm....

WMD. Mexico City. New York City. Was it the Mexican Government? USA? Or Drug Cartels>?

Picture is from LA Times blog.

62 die from flu in Mexico, stirring pandemic fears (click here)
By Rob Stein and David Brown
Washington Post
WASHINGTON - An unusual strain of swine flu has been detected among victims of a large outbreak of a severe respiratory illness in Mexico, prompting global health officials, fearful of a potential flu pandemic, to scramble yesterday to try to contain the virus.
At least 854 people have been sickened and at least 62 have died, primarily in the sprawling capital of Mexico City, triggering officials to close all schools and universities, museums, and libraries and to begin screening air travelers leaving Mexico for symptoms.
Officials warned millions of residents to stay home, avoid public places, and take other protective measures, such as resisting greeting other people with handshakes or kisses. Drugstores reported being inundated with worried customers seeking face masks, and some subway riders were spotted wearing rubber gloves....

The moral suicide. Another warning flag.

Senator Grassley's Suggestion taken seriously?

The Los Angeles Times reports David Kellermann asked for vacation the day he hanged himself. With the granting of his request he immediately relegated his responsibilities to others within the corporation and excused himself from life.

Perhaps such sudden requests should be considered suspicious. I mean, don't most folks plan some kind of 'getaway.' I find his methodology of his demise oddly permanent. The 'gym equipment' would be able to support his body weight. The guy meant it. He sincerely thought out his last act.

Hard to believe there was no signs of his instability. And, yes, I do consider such drastic thinking as unstable. Which when realizing the power and influence he had raises a lot of questions. The first one beinging 'Does Suicidal Ideation actually bring about better results in a company?' Were people saying, 'I've never seen him so brilliant?'

Like what the hell happened here?

These leadership positions can't be so demanding that their 'occupants' feel as though they are at the end of their rope. It is a complete guess, and I am making it for the sake of 'experimental thought,' but, what if that 'pinnacle feeling' which is void of 'shoulds and shouldn'ts' is too overwhelming?

In other words, when finally achieving the status of CEO or otherwise, there is absolutely no one other than oneself to answer to and with a 'lost' parameter of a mentor it could prove to be a 'missing piece' of one's 'psychi' that could be fatal. Fatal not only to the individual, but, to the best interest of the company and its clients.

There is that, 'counter balance' to 'personality' that once gone by achievement SHOULD be the point of a personality's 'creative' ability. The launching point of perhaps genius. What I am speculating is the thought that David Kellermann 'lost his parameters' when he accepted the position last October. Was there 'elucidating' to his peers that would indicate he was 'operating' well within his new responsibilites OR did he actually accept the challenge of his demise by a verbally abusive Congressman? If there was 'hubris' within Kellermann's 'inner circle' regarding Grassley's suggestion, it should be brought forward.