Friday Hearts-and-Minds Blogging

51 Americans killed so far in the Fallujah offensive. A suicide car bomber kills five Iraq police at a Baghdad checkpoint today. 1,200 "insurgents" were killed in Fallujah this week. (An insurgent is anyone who doesn't have a uniform - which by extension means any Iraqi civilian, the CIA, Revolutionary Minute Men, kids who don't attend Catholic School, Iranians, Koreans, Democrats, women and their uterii, gays, and anyone who hasn't been saved by Cheez Whiz. Feel free to add your list of insurgents.)

Ah, they'll soon be throwing flowers in our path and welcoming us as liberators.