Patriotic Act partially unconstitutional

That's what MSNBC has just reported a federal judge decided but they're "efforting" (MSNBC is making up words) to get the details to tell us more than that. Plus several large, very loud explosions heard in Central Baghdad a short while ago.

Y'know, the Kurds - the group who originally helped us last March after we'd let them get screwed 7,000 ways to Sunday - are now saying they were treated better and their quality of life was better under Saddam. And Saddam seemed to hate them best. However, because of our long-term No Fly Zones, the Kurds in the north were able to develop their own semi-separate Iraq, with a thriving economy and some good deal of autonomy, before the war started in March 2003. Since then, we've been busy making their lives miserable and I _really_ don't think these people deserved more misery.

Mind you, the Kurds are the people the Administration keeps citing when they want us to realize Saddam's horror by killing his own people. I guess it's much worse when they got hurt by Saddam than when we hurt them ourselves (Don't pummel my brother - that's MY job!).