An Infinite Number of Monkeys

Or perhaps, like Moses, wandering in the desert for forty years.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/29/MNGLOLF5CF1.DTL&hw=echo+of+hussein&sn=001&sc=1000
New law in Iraq provides for the arrest and jailing of journalists who print stories which insult or ridicules the government or its officials. Some of the laws are apparently 'resurrected verbatim from Sadam Hussein's penal code'.

More nattering.

The administration has gotten away with the Orwellian idea that fear is the hallmark of courage, and a rational calm approach is a mark of cowardice. .... A strong nation does not give up its freedoms or sacrifice its national character in the face of manufactured fear and panic.

--Glenn Greenwald, "How Would a Patriot Act?"