It is not uncommon for Hollywood to put as much effort in editing a trailer as they do the whole movie.

But this, is not a trailer. 

The video is from one sequence of one episode of the upcoming DVD.

From the AP--Shia tribal leaders looking to score the same deal as Sunni tribal leaders. 

At some point the Shia had to figure out that the Sunnis, by taking care of their Al Qaida problem would put the Sunnis in the good graces of the coalition. 

And after last week's testimony by General Petraeus and Ambassador Cocker, everyone realizes this one is going the distance--even Obama's most recent update of his plan to end the war is not a complete withdrawal.

Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Risha was murdered in Ramadi by a car bomb attack. 

The perpetrators of the attack obviously thought the death of the man who worked hard to organize and sustain the Anbar Awakening was a tactically wise move. 

But strategically the murder of Sattar will likely fail.

This week's Congressional hearings where General David Petraeus was subject to an inquisition by quislings proves the founding fathers were correct to point out in Federalist 75 that Congress should have a minimal role in foreign policy.

In the Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton wrote: 

Michael Totten has a great dispatch from Ramadi. 

In Totten's article a Marine officer says:

"I didn't realize until I got here that the problem in Anbar Province was 100 percent Al Qaeda," he said. "The old Baath Party insurgency  here is completely finished. That war was won and Americans, including me, had  no idea it even happened." 

That thought was expressed to me last April and it struck me as odd that we could have won or be winning and not even realize it. 

Senator Chuck Schumer is trying to re-write history and we will probably see this a lot in the coming debate over Iraq.

"Of course that is what the U.S. Military wants me to see." Katie Couric

I've spent 9 months in Iraq over the course of three trips.

After 5 pages of introductory material, including this statement,

"Driven largely by the accelerating pace of tribal engagement and the increasing tempo of Coalition operations, developments in Iraq are unfolding more rapidly and with greater complexity today than when we completed our January NIE....."

As I and many have noted, the speed of battlefield has outpaced distinguished professors published in Foreign Affairs and much commentariat.