Surprise, Iraq!

5/15/05
Dear Diary-- Ha! I totally took Iraq by surprise when I showed up there! It's like, PM Ibrahim al-Jaafari, hello? Did you NOT think I was going to touch base with you regarding the mechanisms of getting more Sunni Arabs involved in drafting Iraq's new constitution? I get that Iraq's made remarkable achievements in the past year, but it's still like totally vital to political progress for the insurgency to be overcome. I mean, I definitely think this whole insurgency thing can be beaten -- as long as there is a "strong political alternative." An I do understand that it is WAY hard to cast off all those years of tyranny and dictatorship and come to politcal unity. But this problem is WAY solvable.

PS- It is totally hot here, and by hot I mean I might die of the sweltering heat in this khaki outfit. PPS- I'm sure they're exaggerating about those 34 bodies they found when I arrived. Beheading is dumb.