Do you ever reach the point of frustration that makes you feel like the top of your head is going to blow off?  The headline of stories like this is enough to cause a fatal explosion, but when they contain comments like the following, it sends me running to find the duct tape to contain cranial pieces from showering the room!

"Fitzgerald and defense attorneys spent more than 15 minutes Thursday morning arguing privately with U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton over whether to dismiss one potential juror, a management consultant. She said her feelings about the administration could spill over into the trial.

"My personal feeling is the Iraq war was a tremendous, terrible mistake. It's quite a horrendous thing," she said. "Whether any one person or the administration is responsible for that is quite a complex question."

It's bad enough that Sandy "Stuffed Pants" Berger only got a tiny slap on his wrist for stealing items from our National Archives, and stashing them under a construction trailer.  While Scooter Libby is charged with lying, and is spending millions to attorneys trying to keep him from getting railroaded on a case that should never have been an issue to begin with!  Then you add the ridiculous statement from the woman potential juror. 

As I indicated in my previous post and subsequent comment, I have very little faith in America's public schools.  This woman is supposedly a management consultant, so she must surely know about the internet.  Yet she refuses to be educated about Iraq from any sources other than CNN or Perky Katie Couric  [scratch that, judging from her ratings, only a few people bother viewing!].  There are a ton of sites to get real-time, boots on the ground news about Iraq.  Michelle Malkin just returned from Iraq.  Laura Ingraham has been there.  Post election, it became apparant that most folks don't care to become knowledgeable about what we're doing in Iraq.  It has been more and more difficult for me to post to my blog post election.  When I see stories like this [hat tip:  Greyhawk at Mudville Gazette] It makes me want to post again. 

"U.S. aims to restart 10 Iraqi factories in weeks

BAGHDAD, Jan 18 (Reuters) - U.S. officials have drawn up a list of 10 former state-run Iraqi factories they hope to restart within weeks to employ 11,000 people, kicking off a plan aimed at giving potential insurgents an economic reason not to fight.

Paul Brinkley, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for business transformation, said the factories on the "top 10 list" are among 200 major factories around Iraq that used to employ more than 300,000 people before the March 2003 U.S. invasion.

U.S. policy immediately after the invasion was to promote privatisation so most state-run factories closed.

That left their employees surviving on stipends of about 30 to 40 percent of their former salaries and had a ripple effect on the economy, for example on farmers whose produce was no longer bought by food-processing plants, Brinkley said.

"The core effort right now is to restore employment to as many of the Iraqi people as we can," Brinkley told a news conference in Baghdad. "We think that will improve stability. It will undermine insurgent sympathy."
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Conceding that U.S. policy had been based on the false assumption that Iraq's industry was "Soviet-style" and inefficient, Brinkley said a gradual transformation to the private sector was now favored over rapid privatisation."