Iraq gets the Surge™, everyone else gets the Squirm™.

In London some assistant US diplodoodle name of David Welch tries to wrap his talented tongue around the premise those Iraqis are our bitchez now and Iran has no business trying to meddle in al-Maliki's sovereign affairs, reports Asharq Alawsat, while meanwhile here at home, according to the NYTimes...

Some senior officials, insisting on anonymity, are discussing alternative leadership for the Iraqi government, including throwing American support behind another Shiite leader, Adel Abdul Mahdi.

Hunkered in the bunker, the DOODFUS and his doofuscenti spread around the memes that, 1) any criticism of their excellent adventures is "partisan" (you bet your sweet ass it is) and, 2) now that they've saved the Iraqis from that evil Saddam and his B's, it's the Iraqi's turn to save them from that evil Nancy and her D's.

...administration officials, who have carefully avoided declaring outright that the American commitment in Iraq would be cut back if Mr. Maliki fails, are using the open hostility of most Democrats and the skepticism of many Republicans as a way to underscore to the prime minister that the White House plan represents a last chance for him.

Meanwhile the "poisonous" Pelosi, having ruled out cutting off their allowance or taking away the car keys, may now threaten to cut their Faux-viewing time on school nights. Some former State Department guy named Philip D. Zelikow explains "the baseline strategy is that we'll invest in good performance, not in things we consider foolish and destructive," by which he apparently means investing in Iraq, not Haliburton; Defense Secretary Robert ("No Expert on Military Matters") Gates mutters something about "off-ramps"; and whatzername, Rice, decrees "it is the Iraqis who are responsible for what kind of country Iraq will be," raising the question, what are we doing there in the first place, Bunky?