what is march 20th?
They must work overtime. But on this one, I have little problem. And Garner was replaced by Bremmer who goofed up a bit. We can face facts squarely. No one is perfect. But yes, as the government shall be formed soon, with the driving mission being formation of a national unity government, and the US troops and Iraqi troops continue to decimate the remaining foreign elements and the local yocals give up and start aiding the Iraqi army and US in ridden even more, obviously all is going exceedingly well in Iraq dispite the fat boys and Hakim and Iranian influences within the government. Our goals are being meet within the projected original time frames. L/MSM have to go into frenzy mode as you are very well aware.
Yeah, I'm supposed to believe assessements made by the buggery Brits that can't wipe their butts without approval from Parliment.
Ask me that question in 1789 and I'd have said these silly 13 colonies were too different, too hostile, with too many competing interests to form a nation, and that the people trying to make it happen were amateurs and incompetents. Which most of them were, after all...
All I can say is that sometimes democracy looks like this. The whole Iraq thing could fall apart tomorrow...but it hasn't yet.
Well, give them credit: the British have had the Colonial Office (?) for pretty long time.
barf alert
"The British diplomat is particularly scathing about the US Third Infantry Division, which he describes as "a big part of the problem" in Baghdad. He accused its troops of being reluctant to leave their heavily armoured vehicles to carry out policing and cites an incident in which British Paras saw them fire three tank rounds into a building in response to harmless rifle fire."
The Guardian doing what it does best - bash US.
Why don't the Britsh Generals and diplomats talk about how they have turned Basra, their turf, over to Islamist Shiite militias who impose Sharia law at gunpoint.
No duh. That's why we booted Garner after a couple of months.
I remember listening to Naills Ferguson at this time, and reading one of his books. He was afraid because the United States had no experience in nation-building, since we traditionally avoided it like the plague.
We definitely were deceived into believing Iraq was much better off as a country than they really were.