Plans!

* The plan of National Reconciliation that Prime Minister Maliki addressed the Parliamnet with was a reasonable one, but the totally unreasonable was the whining and more whining that "some" members of Parliament and politicians have met the plan with. What on Earth do they want?! Nobody knows.

* The security plan continues to suck, completely! Friday 23 June had gunmen set up check points in Haifa Street, right in Baghdad's heart! The gov't called for a quick curfew that held hundreds of people in the streets! Scores of Ministry of Industry workers were kidnapped in broad daylight, only to start emerging later as bodies floating in Tigris.

I have seen with my very own eyes, two holes as big as Grand Canyon in this security plan of theirs.

No. 1 is that you come from a hotbed area, take a shortcut and swerve around two check points, and you have arrived at Mansour, One of Baghdad's important areas, without even seeing one policeman or soldier!! As simple as that!! The other one was when i was driving down Al-Rabee' Street. They have this concrete-walled check point, and there is a shortcut next to it where cars climb the pavement and drive under the noses of the soldiers and their concrete walls. I swear that half of the cars skipped the checkpoint this way.

So, would criminals be so damn stupid to go right into the checkpoints, not taking the shortcuts and swerving around the checkpoints?! Seriously!!!