Progress in Iraq: Not so swift

If a story like this one in The Times of London has run in an American newspaper, I must have missed it -- or skipped over it to read about some trashy Paris Hilton gossip.

Comments from the head of Iraq's new intelligence services, who said there's an s-load more insurgents than U.S. leaders are admitting publicly, gives you a feeling the upcoming elections there will have problems than hanging chads. His other scary assessment in the story:

“People are fed up after two years without improvement,” he said. “People are fed up with no security, no electricity, people feel they have to do something. The army (dissolved by the American occupation authority) was hundreds of thousands. You’d expect some veterans would join with their relatives, each one has sons and brothers.”