Iraq

Five more US troops killed, all in Anbar. No real idea what happened. There are no newspeople working in Anbar. It's too dangerous.

The ethnic cleansing dayplanner in Washash, Baghdad.

Thomas Ricks points out the things that Bush didn't say yesterday.

And, I don't know the validity of this poll, but it's Zogby, and the headline finding leaps off the page.

An overwhelming majority of 72% of American troops serving in Iraq think the U.S. should exit the country within the next year, and more than one in four say the troops should leave immediately, a new Le Moyne College/Zogby International survey shows.

Later: The British are talking about halving their troop levels "early next year," because they claim they've reached a tipping point in Basra.