See What the End's Gon' Be

I agreed with your other post, and not with this one.

So, it's 1 and 1.

If we're paying the freight, in money and lives, we call the tune. Or, as the Golden Rule goes, he who has the Gold makes the Rules.

Has shown that he has a pair when dealing with the American surrendercrats calling for his ouster, but he hasn't shown that he has them when dealing with his own parliament.

West Germany didn't have their first elections until the 50s, and the same was true for Japan. Why should we expect Iraq to get their stuff in one sock this early?

is the greatest leader, but I have to say that I don't like the idea of carl Levin or George Bush trying to tell the people of Iraq who their leaders should be. We have a conniption if a European leader expresses a desire about who they would like to see wint the White House, but somehow we reserve the right to publicly call for the ouster of a duly elected leader in Iraq?

Brian, I expected you to disagree with this one as I was writing it to be honest! I don't think that we should not have a voice in what is going on in Iraq, as we are spending most of the money there and we are the major military presence there. I do not agree that our poiticians should be here undermining any authority that the government in Iraq has by publicly calling for his ouster. It is moves like this that causes, in my view, a move towards more sectarianism in Iraq. When you have one party claiming that a win for them means an immediate withdrawal by the US, and you have politicians attempting to micromanage Iraqi governance from DC, the Iraqis only naturally will start to hedge their bets. We need to have the patience to let them get things figured out instead of acting as thought they should have one round of elections and have a fully functioning government after that.

By our politicians who take the month of August off for vacation when they have done none of THEIR work complaining about the Iraqis doing the same.

Me too! That is a bit of the pot calling the kettle black, don't you think? Every time I look up the Congress is going out for some recess or another---especially when there's a tough decision to be made---but the Iraqi Parliment is supposed to work 25 hours a day, 8 days a wekk with no time off? They (Congress) seems to think that it is good for them to take a bit of time off to "reconnect" with their voters (LMAO), to hear from their constituents, but it is unthinkable that the Iraqis could need a little time away from one another! That is some serious chutzpah, my friend!