Other factors include the decision by radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to order his followers to lay down their arms and themove by many Sunni insurgents to switch sides and fightonthe U.S. side -- for pay.
Mukasey's selection is being seen as a compromise move by the Bush White House, which is not in a position to fight Congress onthe attorney general nomination.
Last year's fight over the arcane concept of network neutrality--the absence of restrictions onthe type of content that can move over the privately owned networks that comprise the Internet--was just a preview.