[Wolfstar]

Where in all of this do the Iraqis take responsibility? Seems to me that everything noted in the piece is something the Iraqi government should have done and should be doing.

That's what we have to change. The problem we have is that the newly elected Iraqi government is trying to stand up; [we've done] nothing to connect that Iraq government to an Iraqi individual on the street.

We have not done local elections, so there's no local representation. We have not provided security forces that are competent yet, we have not yet created jobs they can keep for a period of time.

We have to shorten that gap between the Iraqi government and the Iraqi individual on the street. It takes time for a brand-new government to do that, and we have to help them to do all of that."

[STARWISE]

I hear ya. Maybe he's speaking in the collective (Iraqi/Coalition) "we."