"And remember when you read these press pieces, that this is the same press corps that considers Pres Bush to be a simple minded fundamentalist and the US to be in danger of Christian theocracy if we have 5 conservatives on the Supreme Court."
I know, and that is why this better not be true. But if it is, and these concessions are being made by our US reps over there, well...I just don't have the words necessary to publish proper here without the expletives.
OTH, if it is a falsehood, Reuters will be totally discredited for good in my view.
I'm sure you've heard the old saying "Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me." Well considering Reuters is well into quadruple digits in the "...fool me XXXX shame on me" part of that saying, I'm not sure why you are going to wait until you find out whether or not this zero sourced article is accurate.
Are you suggesting our Reps in Iraq don't have to "make concessions" because they have veto power over the Iraqi constitution? You can only lead a horse to water. If the Iraqi's blow this chance we delivered them, I do not blame us. For now, we have to accept that they are not, and were never gonna be, American mini-me's. Our strategic interests are basically sereved if they are NOT a threat to us or our allies....anything else (like turning Iraq into some model of democratic governance for the muslim world)...is gravy....and do-able, even with some role for Islam in the government. Beats having the Shia break off a totally secular federal system.