Now They Complain Of Overcrowding 
Ed Morrissey

You can never win. First critics said the surge would never work. Now that US and Iraqi forces have started rounding up terror suspects by the hundreds as a result of the improved security plan, the critics now complain that we've captured too many:

Hundreds of Iraqis detained in the Baghdad security crackdown have been crammed into two detention centers run by the Defense Ministry that were designed to hold only dozens of people, a government monitoring group said Tuesday.

The numbers suggested that the security plan’s emphasis on aggressive block-by-block sweeps of troubled neighborhoods in the capital had flooded Iraq’s frail detention system, and appeared to confirm the fears of some human rights advocates who have been predicting that the new plan would aggravate already poor conditions. ...

Well cry me a frickin' river! Poor mistweated widdle jihadis!

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"They have bloggers in Baghdad, just like we do"
Michelle Malkin

President Bush is talking about progress in the war in Iraq. I believe he is now quoting Iraq the Model!

Yep, he quoted from the piece from Mohammed and Omar Fadhil's piece in the WSJ: ...

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LEAK: Bush Veto Speech on Iraq Timeline Bill
by Scott Ott

(2007-03-28) — President George Bush will issue a rare veto in a nationally-televised speech within the next week according to the text of the address leaked to reporters today.

The following are excerpts from a draft of the president’s TV script.

PRESIDENT BUSH: My fellow Americans, in this folder on my desk is legislation that would pull our troops out of Iraq by March 2008, leaving that budding democracy to be ruled under Sharia law which treats goats better than it treats women, leaving this cradle of freedom in the care of men who have made slaughtering civilians an article of faith, and putting the credibility of the United States on a par with the reputation of the United Nations.

I have interrupted your favorite sitcoms tonight so that you could see me do this. I hold in my hand a veto stamp.
(OPEN FOLDER. STAMP BILL.)
Now, I hold in my hand a Zippo lighter.
(IGNITE PAPER. DROP IN TRASH CAN. CAMERA ON FLAMING PAPER, THEN BACK TO PRESIDENT.) ...

If only, Scott. If only.

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Video: Bush quotes Iraq the Model
Allahpundit

It’s a passage from their Journal op-ed of March 7th; no reaction yet at ITM. I’m sure the fact that he didn’t name them was no oversight. If they’re not armed to the teeth yet, they should be.

Bad, bad doings meanwhile in Tal Afar, a town featured on “60 Minutes” a year ago as proof of progress in Iraq. Jihadis detonated two truck bombs yesterday, killing 63 people; Iraqi police responded by going on a rampage overnight and executing approximately 50 Sunni men in retaliation. The Iraqi Army has detained 18 of them. Whether they end up being punished probably depends on which IA unit is holding them. There are rumors swirling that one or more parts of this story are false, but Bob Owens has done some good work in trying to confirm it. He’s confident that it’s true, unfortunately.

WaPo’s got a story out today about an Iraq memo prepared for Bush by retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey. It’s grim so naturally he’s taking heat for it on some blogs, but read through it and you’ll see it’s not as dark as WaPo makes it sound. Bottom line: he thinks we can still stabilize Iraq, that the Sunni “awakening” against AQ is real, and that there aren’t enough superlatives in Webster’s to properly describe the conduct of U.S. military operations. We’ve got less than 36 months at the outside to get it done, though, and the strain will be tremendous:  ...

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Confederate Yankee Bob Owens has lots more on the Tal Afar story here and here.