Iraqis Fighting Al Qaeda

Leave it to Iraq's true "armed forces," the insurgents battling across Iraq's Sunni-Shia divide, to take on Al Qaeda. Lord knows, the Iraqi Army and Iraqi police sure haven't been successful.

This battle is one of many that has gone on across Iraq, between local sectarian or tribal-based militias and the fanatically indiscriminate Al Qaeda or related groups like the Islamic State of Iraq.

I'm certain that the Bush Administration will hype this kind of thing in its favor when it has to state its case for continuing the war this Fall. How far we have fallen. Supporting one private army against another in Iraq is an element of victory?