We're in a perfect situation...

...to attack on all sides at once. That's about the only strategy available when you're surrounded.

While Bushco® wants all eyes fixed on their effort to build New Iraq® via wholesale production of martyrs in Najaf, there's another multi-front assault going on that should be enough to disprove the notion that the Mahdi Army can be crushed by a massive assault on a single city.

The always invaluable Juan Cole has a rundown on the action in

Kut (84 dead, 176 injured in USAF bombing, Mahdi Army attacks and burns police station)

Basra (3000 al-Sadr supporters marching in street, many buildings occupied by Mahdi Army)

Baghdad (44 dead, 164 wounded in slums of Sadr City, al-Sadr supporters demonstrating)

Mosul (police car attacked by machine gun fire, 4 killed, including a child and two policemen)

FUBAR.