Obama keeps sending Joe Biden to Iraq, where almost nobody pays attention when "Jabbering Joe" shoots off his stupid mouth.
Inside the embassy's sprawling compound, a piercing "duck and cover" alarm began moments after the American military commander, Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, told reporters traveling with Mr. Biden that security remained at its lowest levels since the war began - despite major bomb attacks like the ones on Aug. 19 that badly damaged two government ministries and killed at least 132 people.
What sense does any of that make?
Shortly after the attacks, Iraqi police opened fire on a car speeding down Palestine Street in eastern Baghdad. That in turn prompted an American patrol to open fire on the Iraqi police in the confusion. "We had to hide behind blast walls," an Iraqi officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
Luckily for those Iraqi cops, there are blast walls everywhere in Baghdad, and that great city has been completely transformed into an infinite maze of cages where millions of Iraqis live and die in ethnic isolation from each other.
"I think there has been progress," Mr. Biden said when asked why no significant progress has occurred since his last visit in July.
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