Is it reigning yet?

As GeeDubya will remind us in 5 hours, today marks one year since he wrote (or possibly traced, I’m still not convinced he can read and write) “let freedom reign!” on a piece of paper, which he then put under his pillow, in the hopes that the Freedom Fairy, the little-known cousin of the Tooth Fairy, would take away the smoldering wreckage of Iraq and replace it with a Ruritarian utopia.

In the real-world Iraq, the oldest member (87) of the Iraqi parliament died today, and it was not peacefully in his bed. There were miscellaneous suicide bombings today; one American soldier died but the chief of traffic police in Kirkuk escaped (you have to wonder about their strategic planning). Today some unemployed Iraqis who had survived the often lethal process of standing in line to apply to join the police in Samawa held a demonstration because they were not then hired, and were fired on by those who had been hired. Reuters reports: “Foreign troops, apparently from British or Australian units which operate in the area of southern Iraq, observed the violence from the roof of a local authority building.”