Countercolumn has a whole passle of interesting stories regarding Iraq:

• AMCG to peanut gallery: this is why people sometimes think war protestors are loons:

  For myself, I can say without hesitation that I support the "insurgency", and would do so even if my only 21 year old son was serving in Iraq. There’s simply no other morally acceptable option.
  ...
  Those who argue that we cannot leave Iraq in a state of chaos don’t realize that stabilizing the situation on the ground is tantamount to an American victory and a vindication for the policies of aggression. This would be a bigger disaster than the invasion itself. The Bush administration is fully prepared to carry on its campaign of global domination by force unless an unmovable object like the Iraqi insurgency blocks its way. Many suspect, that if it wasn’t for the resistance, the US would be in Tehran and Damascus right now. This, I think, is a rational assumption. For this reason alone, antiwar advocates should carefully consider the implications of “so-called” humanitarian objectives designed to pacify the population. “Normalizing” aggression by ameliorating its symptoms is the greatest dilemma we collectively face.

  Because, you know, spreading democracy to other countries is bad. Why, they may start believing they can run the place! The horror!

• Always keep in mind that if you'd had your way, this guy would still be in charge:

  The little boy screamed out "I am sorry, I don't want to die, I want my father." QUSAY said, "Your father is in the cell next door", which was true. QUSAY then proceeded to spray him with gas and he died after about ten minutes of agony. We could hear them screaming... I estimate that QUSAY SADDAM HUSSEIN personally murdered between 1200-1300 people during this period."

  But of course, this was a war without reason, a war about money. Intellectual purity must always trump actual consequences, no? Keep this all in mind next time you watch your child play on a swing, and then come back and tell me it was all for naught.

• Jason himself provides us with a bloodcurdling description of just how depraved these "insurgents" really are:

  
  Interviewer: You slaughtered him?
  
  'Adnan Elias: Yes, sir. Habib 'Izzat Hamu got the knife. He slaughtered him, and when he was dead, he opened his shirt buttons and cut open his stomach.
  
  Interviewer: Who opened him up?
  
  'Adnan Elias: Muhsin, sir.
  
  ...
  Interviewer: What did he take out?
  
  'Adnan Elias: I don't know, his guts.
  ...
  Interviewer: Go on.
  
  'Adnan Elias: Yes, sir. He opened him up, took stuff out, and put TNT and explosives inside. Then he sewed up his stomach with thick thread.
  
  Interviewer: With thread?
  
  'Adnan Elias: Yes. And a needle. He put the buttons back in place...
  
  ...
  'Adnan Elias: 15 to 30 minutes later they told his family to come and get their son. His father came with two policemen. They picked up the body and made no more than two steps – we were standing far away – Ahmad Sinjar pressed the button.
  
  Interviewer: By remote control.
  
  'Adnan Elias: The body exploded on them, and they died.
  

  And those of you who admire Michael Moore, well, I'll leave you with Jason's own note:

  "They are the MINUTEMEN, the Revolution. And they will win."
  --Michael Moore

There's the trot line. Let's see if we can catch a few lunkers with it...