Weekend update...

...Iraq still FUBAR.

Juan Cole runs down developments around Iraq on Friday and Saturday, including...

Tal Afar: US troops engaged in a fierce battle with Sunni Arab nationalists, killing 13 and wounding "53 civilians."

Kirkuk: A suicide bomber killed nearly two dozen people and wounded at least 36 in front of the police academy.

Latifiyah: Iraqi National Guards supported by US forces conducted a major operation against Sunni nationalist forces, arresting 200 men and suffering 12 policemen and 5 National Guardsmen dead.

Basra: Two oil pipelines were bombed.

Tikrit: Two US troops were injured on Friday.

Najaf: US troops surrounded the city amid fears of a Mahdi Army resurgence.

...and offers this...

"So it wasn't a catastrophic success that caused the problem. It was that Iraq was being run at the upper levels by a handful of screw-ups who had all sorts of ulterior motives, and at least sometimes did not have the best interests of the country at heart. And Bush is the one who put them in charge."

He's explicitly refering to Iraq as the country in question, but he could as easily have meant the US, which has similarly been run by a handful of screw-ups who have all sorts of ulterior motives.

And Bush not only put them in charge, but is among the biggest screw ups of all.

And if you screwed your job up as bad as he's screwed his job up, wouldn't you get fired?