This post at The Politburo Diktat is both an indictment and a call to arms for Pajamastan. Given the gigawatts of personal energy aimed at discussions about the state of affairs in Iraq, no one as far as I can find out had suggested a mapping response until this fellow started sticking pins into an old National Georgaphic freebee map of Iraq to find out where events were happening. I did much the same thing on a large scale map of Bosnia to follow the work of Canadian soldiers a decade ago. I remember when one local CFB Petawawa based soldier died rolling a vehicle, it made more sense when you saw that the raod was a series of moutain hairpins.

What ever your take on an issue, the graphical representation of information can go a long way to solving a dispute or limiting the scope of disagreement. Perhaps the failure to use maps by both what is called the main stream media as well as the bloggers indicates a greater interest in continuing the disagreement than solving the problem.