[happygrl]

"If it were me, I wouldn't have allowed it to come to this by making earlier mistakes," he said.

If it were up to you, Saddam would still be in power, and you'd be under his boot.

Direct your dicomfort at those who are responsible for these outrages, YOUR FELLOW IRAQIS.

[goldstategop]

Massaoud Barzani is a Kurd and he's right, we made a lot of mistakes. We've turned from liberators into an army of occupation. But now that our prestige is engaged, he's also correct that we cannot afford to hand our enemies in Iraq a victory. Let's hope we're going to do a better job than we've done so far.

[jolie560]

..."...make sure civilians are not harmed."...

Any civilian with a brain would be way far away from the area of the fight.

[rj45mis]

Don't you just love these arm chair quarterbacks. My God, if I'd have known Microsoft would have become the world leader in software, I'd have mortgaged everything I own and bought its stock. It's easy to sit back in judgment after the fact, but the truth be told, we couldn't trust the former regime elements to take charge. That would have been a worse option. We need to take out some large population centers to let them know we aren't messing around and let the chips fall where they may. Otherwise, we are in for a long haul over there.

[KellyAdmirer]

Barzani's lips move, and he says nothing. "I would have done it better," "distinguish between the civilians and the fighters," "don't negotiate with terrorists" - are these cliches supposed to be sage or something?

[mrustow]

This guy is so full of it, it's coming out of his ears. He is Mr. Perfect, who is justifiably upset that we are not as perfect as he is. He would have instituted Iraqi sovereignty the day after Saddam was toppled, and would thereby have avoided all the problems we're facing? He would not have engaged in any military de-Baathification? He says we must storm Falluja, but without killing a single civilian? Whatever he's smoking, I want some.

[Smartass]

I don't care if Massoud Barzani is a Kurd, a Byrd, or a
turd. When he goes public and picked up by the Anti
U.S. media AP, he then needs to be dumped!

[a_Turk]

Like I said in March 2003: The governing council should have been lined up and shot.

[caisson71]

When we're the only ones doing ANYTHING, it's easy to be accused of making mistakes. Barzani needs to take up a rifle and show us how to acheive democracy in Iraq "peacefully", without supporting him for the rest of his life. He needs a trip to the shed.