Who needed Barack Obama...

...when you had George W. Bush?

[...]

"The total withdrawal will be completed by December 31, 2011. This is not governed by circumstances on the ground," the spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, told Iraqi reporters, pointedly rejecting the more conditional language that the U.S. government had sought in the accord...

Now for something rather different (via J.M. Heinrichs):

DEPT. OF OBAMAMANIA

In Japan, the Picture Isn't Quite So Bright

Mark C.

Posted by markc at November 17, 2008 08:45 PM