Afternoon quickhits

Josh Marshall: Ken Mehlman spoke at the American Jewish Committee's 100th anniversary event this morning. And I hear that when he told the crowd that Iraq is less of a threat or a challenge today than it was under Saddam he got roundly booed.

According to Shelby Steele, we're losing Iraq because of white guilt. Because, you see, it couldn't possibly have anything to do with the policies, disbanding the Iraqi army, calling off Jay Garner's elections in the first 90 days, going in with too few troops, et. etc.

You can go to this website to thank Stephen Colbert. (I don't know the site, so you might want to use a fake email.)

ThinkProgress has been blasting Bush all day over his recent claim that the National Anthem should only be sung in English. In the 2000 campaign it was sung in Spanish at his events, and, oh yeah, at the inaugural ceremony. Hypocrisy.... Race Demogogue... Can't.... Breathe....

A bit more on "displaced" Iraqis and the quickly deteriorating conditions in the refugee camps.

Finally, the evidence is mounting around the massacre of women and children in Haditha.