"Get it right this time, bozos!"
That's what I wish the House said when they voted to reconvene the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group.
I'm not a fan. Mad blog rabbling about ISG 1.0 here, here, and here.
Meanwhile, in the real world, a massive Al Qaeda contingent has been bottled up in Baqouba like a mobster with his head in a vice, and Petraeus is Joe Pesci turning the wheel. The hard, deadly house-to-house work of these Marines will accomplish more to pacify Iraq than all of official Washington's measured dithering and tete-a-tetes with the Mullahs of Iran.
Rusty has a great collection of Liveleak vids from Baqouba, and Michael Yon is actually there. (CBS has a producer embedded as well, and the NYT's Michael Gordon is in with the troops on the ground. I believe in trying to give the MSM credit where it is due, and I admire the risks these journalists are taking.)
P.S. One of my regular readers will be interested to see, according to Yon's account, the MLRS being employed in this urban battle.