A device the opposition can really warm to

It's not news that the US military has been working to develop a non-lethal crowd control device that uses microwaves to heat the skin of people assembling, you know, where they shouldn't, forcing them to scatter. Apparently the mechanism is ready for deployment against unruly crowds in Iraq.

Officials said the vehicle, termed Sheriff, would contain the Active Denial System . . . [which can] be directed at targets at a range of 1 kilometer.

So - basically - this is the Bush administration's approach to press conferences, only with wheels.