[Non-Sequitur]

We're still in Germany, Japan and South Korea.

Last time I checked the governments in Germany, Japan, and Korea weren't depending on us protecting them from their local populace. It is a sad fact that all that we have accomplished on the battlefield and all the good will we've built up with the Iraqi people can all be pissed away in an instant by that miserable mess of an Iraqi government. And if we agree to prop it up then there's no reason for them to change. We've got the insurgents on the run, the Iraqi army is standing up, the people are beginning to see the fruits of all the labor and are cooperating with the U.S. forces like never before, the next thing to be done is a thorough house-cleaning of the al Maliki government. Otherwise all could be for naught.

[joseph20]

"And if we agree to prop it up then there's no reason for them to change. We've got the insurgents on the run, the Iraqi army is standing up, the people are beginning to see the fruits of all the labor and are cooperating with the U.S. forces like never before, the next thing to be done is a thorough house-cleaning of the al Maliki government."

Isn't that up to the Iraqi people, when they vote?

[DGHoodini]

It’s not the general populace they are worried about. It’s the armed militias..many who have uncomfortably close ties to Irans’ Hardliners.

[goldstategop]

Actually its the opposite. The locals decided they want us around to protect them from Al Qaeda and to run interference with their own government. Plus they're beginning to realize keeping Americans around is good for business. After awhile, no one thinks of it as an occupation and no country has ever asked us to leave and we would be gone from Germany, Japan and South Korea if the host governments requested us to go. They haven't.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus