This–Iraq Says Suicide Strikes Are ‘Policy’–is not the move of a military that believes it can win, but rather a move of desperation to attack the coalition’s resolve. For a regime that so many claimed did not have any usage for terrorism, it is remarkable to degree to which all the regime has are terrorist tactics. I still believe that many of the mainline military would have quit if it weren’t for the terror being applied by the regime to its own citizens.

It is worth noting that one does not create suicide bombers overnight. Clearly the regime has been fomenting some of its own Islamic extremism to create these “weapons.”