Yje Iraqis need to form a representative democracy that represents the three main groups of people that are citizens of Iraq.
This must include all religious groups equally as well including Christians.
No one religious group should be singled out or favored over the others.
Once that is done, then Iraq can begin the work of reinforcing and rebuilding their infrastructure, promoting businesses both small and large, build modern schools and hospitals and hold regular democratic elections. All this being done while the Iraqi police and security forces operate to ensure the safety of the citizenry.
The Iraqis need to form a representative democracy that represents the three main groups of people that are citizens of Iraq.
This must include all religious groups equally as well including Christians.
No one religious group should be singled out or favored over the others.
Once that is done, then Iraq can begin the work of reinforcing and rebuilding their infrastructure, promoting businesses both small and large, build modern schools and hospitals and hold regular democratic elections. All this being done while the Iraqi police and security forces operate to ensure the safety of the citizenry.
I think we’ve already done enough.
“Hey Imam Obama, want some lipstick for your pig?”
Full disclosure: the following is not a defense of Obama; just the facts.
If it is a “pig” it is our “pig” not Obama’s.
The timing of the current U.S. military position in Iraq was not set by Obama.
The timing of the changes in our military operations in Iraq was set by a legal agreement between the Iraqi government and the Bush administration; with the primary emphasis on the timing that agreement achieved being pushed for most by that Iraqi government.
For Obama to have done something different, it would have required renegotiating that agreement.
No Iraqi government was going to do that.
Doing so would be an admission that they were weak and unprepared to fulfill their own obligations as spelled out in that agreement.
As much as that may have been more honest, concerning the current security status in the country, it would have politically doomed any Iraqi government that did it.
It is now up to the Iraqi people themselves, to end their need and expectation that the U.S. should force Iraqi politicians to do things that the Iraqi people are unwilling to force them to do.
Iraq will be a bloody mess by November 2.
Why should a POTUS who does not believe in representative democracy in his own country (witness the health care reform cram-down) lift a finger to nurture it in other countries?
‘Do more’ — the entitled ones always ask for more.
Allawi...
Silly Iraqis. They think he cares. They don’t know that he would take some self righteous satisfaction in their failure.