Iraq looks more every day like a brier patch.  

Uncle Remus says we're up to our arses in the thicket and stuck firmly to the Tar Baby.

Multiple Choice: (please respond to the right -->)

I'm just glad that I am not

A. among the dwindling number of U.S. troops left in the brier patch as November approaches;
B. a U.S. soldier on the ground in the brier patch trying to occupy no man’s land in its civil war;
C. the parent or other loved one of a U.S. soldier stuck to Brier Fox’s Iraqi Tar Baby;
D. an American male of draft age who is not part of the privileged power elite;
E. the parent or other loved one of an American male of draft age.