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For some insane reason the White House keeps thinking if they throw the Chimp out there to fling shit at us, we will suddenly decide he's a great leader -- as opposed to a primate with poor bathroom habits.

He's holding yet another ineffectual news conference at 10:30 a.m. eastern today. I know the news will be only a couple hours old, but after he gets done talking about another corner turned will anyone in the press ask him about the following?

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces on Wednesday raided Sadr City, the stronghold of the feared Shiite militia led by radical anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, but Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki disavowed the operation, saying he had not been consulted and insisting "that it will not be repeated."

The defiant al-Maliki also slammed the top U.S. military and diplomatic representatives in Iraq for saying Iraq needed to set a timetable to curb violence ravaging the country.

"I affirm that this government represents the will of the people and no one has the right to impose a timetable on it," al-Maliki said at a news conference.