If Wishes Were Horses......

April 27, 2007 - BAGHDAD (AFP)
- An aide to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Friday accused
the Democratic US lawmakers who voted for a timed withdrawal of
US troops of playing politics with the future of Iraq.

"I wish they would stand side by side with the Iraqi people
rather than taking positions that could be catastrophic for the
Iraqis, because of their differences with the Republicans,"
said Hassan al-Sinaid.


Is this not rich?
And what do the American people "wish for?"
Perhaps that the Iraqi people would stop killing each other
and get down to some serious talking.... with each other, so
that our sons and daughters can come home? Are the wishes of
the American people somehow secondary to the wishes of Iraqi
politicians?

Did they really expect that the American Army was going to come
in and solve all their problems for them? That they would have
to do nothing but be the recipients of America's benevolence?
Is that what they were promised?