[EBH]

press the administration of President George W. Bush to tell the Iraqi government that U.S. presence was "not open-ended."

Flame away, but this needs to be done. The only caveat I see is if they(Iraqis) decide to turn it all over to the terrorists and warlords, then they are all the enemy and that means we go back to square one:

You're either with us or the terrorists.

And in the end that is what our foreign policy demanded. That policy is not 'open ended,' it is meant to make terrorism end.

[BLS]

"Flame away, but this needs to be done"


No flames here. You are correct.

[plain talk]

There is a huge difference between privately telling the Iraqis it is not open-ended and PUBLICLY doing it. The first has already been done anyway.