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"I thought the same thing about that quote. I imagine the pressure is great."
PM Maliki and his cabinet members are under enourmouse pressure as many of us can realize. It taint going to be easy, but, here we have the first modern democratically elected (to a point I realize), IG that is actually making a move to make Iraq one. A free state where violence is not welcome nor will be tolerated. GWB's statements though terse, shall some day be better understood by many people, who just blink and forget currently.
To many people are instructed by so many different sources, which taken alone can make a lot of sense, due to what we understand about the various Islamic sects, offshoot groups such as the Salafist, Wahhabist, Qutbist etc., Muslim history in general, which has opened up in phenominal ways in the past few years, etc..
And these things can easily overshadow simply phrases such as most all people really want to be free, to be able to make choices as who governs them etc..
I truly think the majority of Iraqi, both Kurds,Turkomen, Christians, Jews, other minorities, Shiite, and Sunni, most all really want peace and their country to start to recover then prosper in the future.
And they realize the chance is at hand if a strong IG can with the aid of the coalition forces stamp out most of the insurgency, leading to a point where only IG forces will be able to put the rest of the garbage on the trash heap of history.

Agreed. After a couple of posts yesterday that won't leave me alone : ) -Aloha Ronnie's remarks about the Vietnamese comments in the last American election and Dr. Raoul responding to the Code Pink commie question "Is it Vietnam yet?" with "Is it Kent State yet?

my thoughts this morning are:

1. What must it be like for the Vietnamese watching this unfold?

2. What reaction would the Iraqi people have to a real knowledge of what the left did to their counterparts 30 years ago...do they understand the war being fought here in American politics on American soil, on their behalf? And do they understand the ramifications of a loss?