Relations between the top United States general in Iraq and Nouri al-Maliki, the country's prime minister, are so bad that the Iraqi leader made a direct appeal for his removal to President George W Bush.Although the call was rejected, aides to both men admit that Mr Maliki and Gen David Petraeus engage in frequent stand-up shouting matches, differing particularly over the US general's moves to arm Sunni tribesmen to fight al-Qa'eda.One Iraqi source said Mr Maliki used a video conference with Mr Bush to call for the general's signature strategy to be scrapped. "He told Bush that if Petraeus continues, he would arm Shia militias," said the official. "Bush told Maliki to calm down."At another meeting with Gen Petraeus, Mr Maliki said: "I can't deal with you any more. I will ask for someone else to replace you."
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I spent some time on InviteShare last night. It is a very interesting site that previews beta applications not yet ready for prime time. The site is a market / clearinghouse for the invites needed to access these developing ideas (like needing an invite to open a Gmail account).
The most interesting new application for me was Scrybe - an online / offline organizer that I simply have to have. I am something like 500th on the waiting list for an invite. Having now moved to Gmail for all mail I have discovered the freedom of moving away from Office products. Scrybe looks like it will be equally liberating. We shall see.
I have now moved my entire site to GoDaddy.com. 100 times the space for less money. This should be fun. I learned a lot during the process. Once the dns servers were pointed to the new site I uploaded my old site content easily but in the process failed to link the archives to old postings. So, this is a fresh start.
