United Nations (news - web sites) special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi gestures during a press conference held in Baghdad. Brahimi said that it was 'imperative' a political solution be reached in the standoff between the US-led coalition and Shiite Muslim leader Moqtada Sadr and that elections planned in Iraq (news - web sites) next January were an 'important milestone' in the country's march toward for democracy.(AFP/Antonio Scorza)
Ahhhh, so it's "imperative" to appease an anti-coalition, anti-US outcast radical cleric with very little public support. Friend$-of-Tyrants UN alert!