All calculated theater.
They must have been listening to Drudge's radio show last night.
Headline reads as though NOBODY in Iraq wants this guy.
"Germans pissed that they lost !"
Give them back the Butcher and be done with these morons!
Probably having the head of the big Sunni party assassinated on Sunday (Kahtan Al-Rubaie, killed by four gunmen in Mahmudiya) hasn't helped things. This hasn't gotten much reporting, but I think it's important.
Hello???? This is going to be, as it should be, an APPOINTED government . . . That's what happens when wars are won - the winners appoint new governments. Duh! That was the whole point of fighting and winning the war - to get a new government in place that would be more to our liking (and let's not pretend otherwise). Everyone expects a future democratically elected government, but in the meantime, let's not forget that we're talking about an appointed government - one that meets the requirements of those who won the war.
The world press seems to be thinking that we didn't win a war in the first place . . .
This is because whoever is chosen will only be there for 6 months and must give up the position once a democratic body is chosen by the people. It's far more likely that an 81 year old man will be willing to give up that seat than a man who is 45. We want to make sure that whoever is there WILL actually give over that power to an elected President.