[herring_RN]

Key Iraqi Leaders Deliver Setbacks to U.S.

Premier Rejects Terms of Proposed Pacts; Cleric Reactivates Militia

Saturday, June 14, 2008

BAGHDAD, June 13 -- The Bush administration's Iraq policy suffered two major setbacks Friday when Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki publicly rejected key U.S. terms for an ongoing military presence and anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called for a new militia offensive against U.S. forces....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...061302019.html

[Elvish]

And things are going well??? Is that what they're saying?

[Roy Fokker]

"Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it".
'The Iraqis desire freedom and democracy. Let us give it to them'.
We sure liberated them, didn't we?

This only exposes the charade for what it is: this flea-bitten war was never about "democracy" in Iraq.

"Iraqi Freedom"? I look at the cost and weep bitter tears.
Bitter. Tears.

inconsolably yours,

[herring_RN]

Originally Posted by Roy Fokker

"Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it".
'The Iraqis desire freedom and democracy. Let us give it to them'.
We sure liberated them, didn't we?

This only exposes the charade for what it is: this flea-bitten war was never about "democracy" in Iraq.

"Iraqi Freedom"? I look at the cost and weep bitter tears.
Bitter. Tears.

inconsolably yours,

Me too.