>From Informed Comment [J.Cole] The US embassy in Baghdad circulated a memo to all Americans working for the US government in the Green Zone. It ordered them to wear protective gear whenever they were outside in the Green Zone, including just moving from one building to another. Guerrillas have managed to lob a number of rockets into the area in recent days, and killed one US GI on Tuesday. The Green Zone is therefore actually the Red Zone. I.e., it is no longer an area of good security contrasting to what is around it. Senator McCain was more wrong than can easily be imagined. Not only can American officials not just stroll through Baghdad districts unarmed and unprotected by armor, but they can't even move that way from one building to the next inside the Green Zone! == If we can't hold the F'ing "Green Zone", it is time to shut down and move out. Vince Foster http://tinyurl.com/37ws2w About his murder: http://tinyurl.com/ysj8o "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history." - Hillary .