Freedom in Iraq will never ring as long as Bush is the bell-ringer.

You can't put a puppet government in place and say it evolved from the will of the Iraqi people. It's offensive to think that Iraqis are too (fill in the blank) to determine their own form of government and that they have to be "helped" by American combat troops. It's the supreme form of supercillious demagoguery.

The Iraqi people will eventually speak and determine what they want anyway and right now what they want is American troops to go home.

They don't want outsiders like Chalabi or for that matter Alawi to call the shots.

Frank