While what little remains of Iraq seems to be going up in flames each day, many people are asking just where in the name of Moktada al-Sadr is the Iraq Study Group? Will they hand in their final term paper not only after the semester ends, but after the University of Baghdad is completely sacked?

Well, it is now being reported that the members of the so-called Baker Commission are engaging in massive civil disobedience, as they refuse to venture even into Baghdad’s Green Zone to complete their studies.

Instead, they were spotted burning their Iraq Study Group membership cards, as they marched behind Cindy Sheehan on the Washington Mall, chanting “Make Love, Not War,” and “Hell No, We Won’t Go.”

They subsequently effected a take-over and sit-in of the Bush Administration Building, and promptly announced that they intend to stay the course of the war.

Some Commission members are also demanding a change in curriculum, from Middle Eastern Studies, to a much safer course on Vietnam, since the communists have brought peace and stability to that region.

John Kerry weighed in on this issue, stating that “if you’re smart, you stay in the Senate; if you don’t study you end up in The Iraq Study Group, where you’re actually expected to solve this mess.”

Kerry added, “how do you ask a man to be the last to die for fake yellowcake.”

In contrast, both Senators McCain and Lieberman proposed to address this problem by appointing more members of The Iraq Study Group.

According to the latest developments, as reported by Hardball’s David Shuster, the Baker Commission members were refusing to cut and run from their occupation of the White House, and were lighting up marijuana joints as they tried to maintain their barricade against the counterinsurgency being mounted by the Vice President. The embattled forces could also be heard singing this new version of the Buffalo Springfield classic:

There’s somethin’ happenin’ here
What it is ain’t exactly clear
There’s a man with a gun, over there
Tellin’ me I got to beware
I think it’s time we stop, Commissioners, what’s that sound?
Everybody look – Iraq’s goin’ down

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In other news, in light of the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, Bush said that he looked deep into Putin’s medicine cabinet, and finally found the missing weapons of mass destruction.

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