ET VITAM VENTURI SAECULI. The liberation of Iraq has its good news-bad news moments. (What's the good news? Saddam Hussein is overthrown. Allah be praised! What's the bad news? Some friends of Israel did it.) Intel Dump sees in a Shia protest a glass half-full. Mark Kleiman is less cheerful. This Independent coverage by Fergal Keane is worth a look. Am I asking too much to hope that someone at that constitutional convention understands the Establishment Clause? It would be a waste for Iraq's Shia, having been denied religious freedom for so long, to deny it to others.