ernie,
lets build more sand castles
just for fun
So Obama, with no military experience, plans to ignore what the commanders on the ground recommend? That sounds about right.
I think Israeli reporters gave him the toughest questions of his trip. One questioned whether they could believe him or would he change his position again.
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Washington Post ^ | July 23, 2008 | Max Boot
Posted on Tue 22 Jul 2008 10:09:28 PM PDT by flyfree
There is some irony in the fact that Democrats, after years of deriding Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as a hopeless bungler and conniving Shiite sectarian, are now treating as sacrosanct his suggestion that Iraq will be ready to assume responsibility for its own security by 2010. Naturally this is because his position seems to support that of Barack Obama.
A little skepticism is in order here. The prime minister has political motives for what he's saying -- whatever that is. An anonymous Iraqi official told the state-owned Al-Sabah newspaper, "Maliki thinks that Obama is most likely to win in the presidential election" and that "he's got to take preemptive steps before Obama gets to the White House." By smoothing Obama's maiden voyage abroad as the Democratic nominee, Maliki may figure that he will collect chits that he can call in later.