Really??? (Mark II)

Reuters:

By Paul Tait

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq has made "extremely disappointing" progress towards reconciling its warring sects, the U.S. ambassador said on Tuesday, just three weeks before he is due to present a pivotal report on Iraq to the U.S. Congress.
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In some of the bluntest language used by a U.S. official towards Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's fractured coalition government, ambassador Ryan Crocker also warned that U.S. support for Maliki's administration was not open-ended.

Only the U. S. Congress is allowed to take the entire month of August off!!

"Progress on national level issues has been extremely disappointing and frustrating to all concerned, to us, to Iraqis, to the Iraqi leadership itself," Crocker said.

"We do expect results, as do the Iraqi people, and our support is not a blank check," he told reporters in Baghdad.

Because we have other countries to bomb, dammit!!!

See?

AMY GOODMAN: Nir, what about Iran? What about the whole Bush-Cheney push to attack Iran? And what is the significance of this? And how does it play out in these countries?

NIR ROSEN: Well, I think we’re dealing with a mentality on the part of our administration that nobody else is going to have the guts to take on Iran in the future, the next president, so if we don’t do it, who’s going to do it, and we’ll be vindicated in the future just like Reagan was vindicated, allegedly, for bringing down the Soviet Union. So they have this long-term view of how history will treat them, and if they don’t take down Iran, nobody else will.