Our 5 year occupation has run it's course. The military can protect the oil, but it can't improve the situation unless they stop the hand holding. Iraqis have to step up. Sensing it's their country and their time to step up, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has endorsed Barack Obama's 16-month timetable, by name, for the United States to withdraw from Iraq:"U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal"So now that Bush is doing a 180˚ and talking about time tables, will he ever give credit to Barack or Democrats who have championed withdrawal for years? Asked about McCain's position, al-Maliki artfully disagreed without slamming Grandpa McSame:
"Whoever is thinking about the shorter term is closer to reality. Artificially extending the stay of U.S. troops would cause problems."al Maliki added:
“The Americans have found it difficult to agree on a concrete timetable for the exit because it seems like an admission of defeat to them. But it isn’t"Once you get past Bush's second-grader "good vs evil" approach to foreign policy you see that a military occupation without humanitarian goals is useless. You have to care about more than just their oil.
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