Impressive Annoyance

Great story from the California conservative
I know this type of information is not what liberals want to hear, but I'm sure something bad will happen in the next few days to cheer you up:

some highlights:

A trusted source in Baghdad confirmed several key developments that’ve gone largely unreported. Here’s what’s been happening while “journalists” focused on John Edwards’ haircuts:
Al Qaeda lost the support of Iraq’s Sunni Arabs. The fanatics over-reached: They murdered popular sheiks, kidnapped tribal women for forced marriages, tried to outlaw any form of joy and (perhaps most fatally, given Iraqi habits) banned smoking. In response, the Arab version of the Marlboro Man rose up and started cutting terrorist throats.

Since the tribes who once were fighting against us turned on al Qaeda, our troops not only captured the senior Iraqi in the organization, which made brief headlines, but also killed the three al Turki brothers, major-league pinch-hitters al Qaeda sent into Iraq to save the game.
Oh, and it emerged that the Iraqi “head” of the terrorists was just a front, in the words of one Army officer, Omar al Baghdadi was “a Wizard of Oz-like creation designed to give an impression that al Qaeda has Iraqis in its senior ranks.”

Al Qaeda has been pushed right across Anbar, from the once Wild West to the province’s eastern fringes. The terrorists are still dug in elsewhere, from the Diyala River Valley to a few Baghdad neighborhoods, but, to quote that senior officer again, “our forces have been taking out their leaders faster than they can find qualified replacements.”