Quickhits

Not feeling very witty this AM, so here're a few quickhits.

(AP) The Mahdi use a sandstorm as aerial cover to launch rocket attacks on the Green Zone.

(AFP) Another article citing US and Iraqi military sources saying Iran is supplying weapons.

(AP) In Gaza, an Israeli tank fired a shell into a house killing a mother and four young children.

(AP) "Millions of dollars of lucrative Iraq reconstruction contracts were never finished because of excessive delays, poor performance or other factors, including failed projects that are being falsely described by the U.S. government as complete, federal investigators say."

(Newsweek) You know, no one is talking about McCain's crazy foreign policy pronouncements, throwing Russia out of the G8, replacing the UN with a "league of democracies" making China and Russia enemies.....

(And even in criticism, there's some McCain media love, "I write this with sadness because I greatly admire John McCain, a man of intelligence, honor and enormous personal and political courage....)

And, (AP) Oil nears $120 following labor and military strikes