THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE THEOCRACY?

In a press briefing yesterday, Donald Rumsfeld said, "It (Iraq) certainly isn't like our Civil War."

TOP TEN THINGS IRAQIS IN 150 YEARS FROM NOW WILL MISS OUT ON BECAUSE THEIR CIVIL WAR ISN'T LIKE OURS

10. Guys in overalls driving pickup trucks with Sunni flags

9. Comparative phrase "like Zarqawi through Anbar"

8. Scene of Fallujah burning in "Gone With The Sand"

7. Jazz. But they probably will have some kind of Qanun-based variation of the Blues

6. Maliki's Birthday Holiday

5. Schoolchildren having to memorize the Abu Ghraib Address

4. Re-enactments of suicide bombings

3. "Uncle Mahmoud's Cabin"

2. The Ku Klux Kaliphate

And the number one thing Iraqis 150 years from now will miss out on because their Civil War is not like ours:

1. Reconstruction