This news from Central Command:

IRAQ SECURITY FORCES LEAD OPERATION NEAR AS SUWAYRAH

CAMP BABYLON, Iraq - Two hundred eighty Iraqi National Guard soldiers and Iraqi police officers in the Wassit Province led an operation Wednesday that resulted in 35 anti-Iraqi insurgents killed, 45 insurgents detained and more than 50 mortar and artillery rounds and other munitions captured.

Eight Iraqi security force members were killed and nine wounded in the operation that began at 7 a.m. north of As Suwayrah.

It sounds like the clock is ticking on Michael Moore's Minutemen.