as the iraqi army falls up, we'll fall down.

* AL:

"Years from now, when historians look back at the presidency of George W. Bush, the thing he will be faulted for, perhaps more than anything else, is the way he so shamelessly turned war into a partisan political issue.
[...]
But in the summer of 2002, Bush and his advisors made a fateful decision. They looked around, saw a unified nation, and decided it was time to cash in politically. They decided to turn terrorism and war into political issues and use them to solidify GOP control of Congress."

* knightridder:

" U.S. officials were warned for more than two years that Shiite Muslim militias were infiltrating Iraq's security forces and taking control of neighborhoods, but they failed to take action to counteract it, Iraqi and American officials said.

Now American officials call the militias the primary security concern in Iraq, blaming them for more civilian deaths than the Sunni Muslim-based insurgency and demanding that the Iraqi government move quickly to stem their influence.

U.S. officials concede that they didn't act, in part because they were focused on fighting the Sunni-dominated insurgency and on recruiting and training Iraqi security forces." (link)

as the iraqi army falls up, we'll fall down.