Iraq news for today:

Iraqi oil workers have gone on strike, expressing a lack of confidence in the Oil Pipeline Company's leadership and its connection to the Oil Ministry, particularly in how it relates to the Hydrocarbon Law that Bush's oil buddies are desperate to see passed.

The exodus of the Iraqi intelligensia continues: its most recent college graduating class considers it "suicide" to remain in their homeland.

A bipartisan group of senators has introduced legislation that implements many of the Iraq Study Group's recommendations. However, it calls for troop withdrawals if certain benchmarks are met, which, to me, seems like an open invitation to the Bush administration to do their best to ensure such benchmarks are not met.

The Bushies may have finally found the right hack to lead our military: Gen. Petraeus now claims that the surge hasn't even started yet! Meanwhile, another Bush lackey, Iraq Ambassador Ryan Crocker, says that he doesn't "see an end game... in sight."