I guess the most inconvenient truth for neo-cons and their ilk is that the entire repute of this Presidency now hinges on whether one Iraqi politician, Prime Minister Maliki, can cover his ass for him by pulling the shreds of the country together. The reason this is so ois because the invasion of Iraq was an act of supreme arrogance and ignorance, in which the real ground situation was totally misestimated by an incompetent Administration.

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