It Doesn’t Matter What Maliki Says
President Bush is all charged up because Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has had a ‘sea-change,’ in the president's words, on his determination to fight insurgents. If it has indeed been a sea change, the foot-dragging Iraqi minister must have been off on a Caribbean vacation when no one was looking.
President Bush is all charged up because Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has had a ‘sea-change,’ in the president's words, on his determination to fight insurgents. If it has indeed been a sea change, the foot-dragging Iraqi minister must have been off on a Caribbean vacation when no one was looking. His countenance these days is far more sea-sick, the pallor of a man desperate to step off the plunging decks of Iraqi politics.
If we are sufficiently and accurately leaked and primed and forewarned about tomorrow’s speech before the nation, it’s going to be different this time. We learned from our mistakes and the Iraqi government has a new backbone, with which it is presumably shru…