Here’s a another interesting article:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/26/wclinton126.xml

PRAVDA

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6947079,00.html

…NEW YORK (AP) - Iraq is the “tip of the bayonet” in the fight against terror, the country’s prime minister said ahead of a meeting with President Bush, stressing that the same group responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks was behind the destruction of the minarets of a revered Iraqi Shiite shrine.

Those “who destroyed the towers of the (World) Trade Center are the same as those who blew up the (Golden Mosque) in Samarra and carried out the bombings of hotels in Jordan and Algeria,” Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Monday.

The event was held on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly a day before al-Maliki is to meet with Bush. The Shiite politician has come under great criticism from many in the United States for failing to meet a series of benchmarks for progress on the political and economic fronts.

The attacks al-Maliki referenced - all blamed on al-Qaida and its offshoots - included the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in New York, the triple hotel bombings in the Jordanian capital in November 2005 and the double-suicide bombings in Algeria in April. …

…Speaking before an audience of about 150 Shiite Muslims, al-Maliki derided the terror group headed by Osama bin Laden and those that have allied themselves with him, such as al-Qaida in Iraq. These groups, he said, “are against humanity.” …

…Asked if he envisaged a protracted U.S. military presence in the country similar to the one following the Korean conflict, al-Maliki said: “We want a long-term relationship on the basis of respect and mutual interests.” …

…“Among the most important achievements of this government is that we averted a sectarian war,” al-Maliki said.

Curtailing sectarian strife - a vicious quid-pro-quo between Shiite militias and Sunni insurgents - has proven to be a most daunting challenge for al-Maliki’s government, and one which critics in the U.S. Congress have seized upon as an impetus for an early withdrawal of American forces from the country.

But al-Maliki, who has stressed his commitment to building national reconciliation, said the new Iraq is and would remain a democratic nation.

“We want a democratic Iraq. We do not want the majority to dominate the minority. We do not want the minority to govern the majority,” he said. …

I hope that’s true cuz if that biznatch wins, I am moving to the caribbean.

Already did. Even the dummcrats are having second thoughts. That was the point. How is that bad news?

It’s what also what Dhims I know have been saying for quite awhile. So while the McDonald’s fry cooks stop by here and talk smack, the rest of the working stiffs that I know are worried shitless.

Works for me.