Not On the Breakfast Menu—Humble Pie
President Bush has a breakfast meeting with Prime Minister Malaki of Iraq tomorrow morning and it is not a Breakfast of Champions, but a breaking of bread among broken dreams and shattered promises.
President Bush has a breakfast meeting with Prime Minister Malaki of Iraq tomorrow morning and it is not a Breakfast of Champions, but a breaking of bread among broken dreams and shattered promises.
The dream was never Iraqi, nor were the promises. Iraq, like so much of the world, went along to get along, both with Saddam Hussein and invading American troops. The civil society Iraqis lived under, that George Bush found so abhorrent, was much like the Iranian dictatorship America forged out of its placement of the Shah of Iran at the head of government. America armed and supported that government until the Shah took a quick trip for medical treatment and the wheels came off.
Much depends upon whose ox is being gored.
Suddenly, our steadfast president is deciding that the blame for what-all has …