United States of America

[ThomasWach]

Aus der Washington Post und zum Thema des Irakkrieges und seiner Bedeutung im amerikanischen Wahlkampf:

Make the Election About Iraq
By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, June 13, 2008; Page A23

In his St. Paul victory speech, Barack Obama pledged again to pull out of Iraq. Rather than "continue a policy in Iraq that asks everything of our brave men and women in uniform and nothing of Iraqi politicians, . . . [i]t's time for Iraqis to take responsibility for their future."

We know Obama hasn't been to Iraq in more than two years, but does he not read the papers? Does he not know anything about developments on the ground? Here is the "nothing" that Iraqis have been doing in the past few months:

1. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki sent the Iraqi army into Basra. It achieved in a few weeks what the British had failed to do in four years: take the city, drive out the Mahdi Army and seize the ports from Iranian-backed militias.
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Quelle:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...03474.html