Monday, October 02, 2006  Other Items  Reuters reports that a
British soldier was killed Sunday (death was announced today and
brings the total number of British soldiers killed in Iraq to
119). The US military reports three American troops were killed
Sunday (deaths announced today and brings the total number of
American troops killed in Iraq to 2718). Martha notes Amit R.
Paley and K.I. Ibrahim's "Sadr Political Bloc Calls for Overhaul
of Iraqi Cabinet" (Washington Post):   Sabrina Tavernise,
covering the same issues in the New York Times, offers this
curious paragraph:  At the time, the thinking was to include all
of Iraq's groups, particularly the minority Sunni Arabs who
dominated the government of Saddam Hussein, in order to drain
support for the insurgency. But now, five months after the
government was formed, the violence has only worsened, with
death squads carrying out sectarian killings that are changing
the texture of neighborhoods.  If you can figure what Tavernise
is suggesting (that excluding S