Question:  What is the Bush Administration’s Iraq strategy?
Answer:  To insist that the war-torn Iraqis clean up a problem that the Bush Administration created in the first place, then hasn’t been able to clean up with 147,000 troops and hundreds of billions of dollars.

Report: Iraqi government orders arrest of top Sunni cleric
BAGHDAD (CNN)—The Iraqi Interior Ministry on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for Hareth al-Dhari, who heads the influential Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars, a group of top Sunni religious leaders, military officials said.

Brig. Gen. Abdul Karim Khalaf told CNN the warrant accuses al-Dhari of violating Iraq’s antiterrorism law by inciting sectarian violence and killings.

Al-Dhari has been a strong critic of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s Shiite-dominated government. (Posted 4:05 p.m.)

Since were supposedly backing the Shiite Govt.. I guess our boys are in the middle of this crap…

This is gonna be a big bloody civil war.

Hey Bluestocking… I “hope” you are offering us a little sarcasm by making a tongue-in-cheek remark…

“THAT is an absolutely wonderful and very perceptive quote (by Hillary Clinton).  “Hope is not a strategy”—BRILLIANT!”

... because Hillary certainly didn’t invent it. I’ve heard it for years from a dozen sources.

Only Iraquis fully understand their “problems” and I suggest that only Iraquis have any chance of finding a workable resolution to it, and that’s in the off-chance they even want to solve them. Sometimes entire nations get off on keeping the pot boiling internally!

It is laughable for Americans, who, in general, know almost NOTHING about other cultures and societies, to even suggest they can “help.” Sure they can go in with “all guns a’blazin’” but when the dust settles they haven’t a clue what to do to repair the “collateral” damage they’ve caused in the process.

I believe the evidence amply demonstrates that Americans have screwed up more sovereign nations in the last century than they’ve “helped.” Americans should take a break from sticking their armies of ignorance in other peoples’ business and let other nations solve their own problems. These other nations couldn’t possibly do worse, could they?

The general has to go. We need to get out of there yesterday.

This Iraq straegy at work in middle America: you don’t like the color of your neighbors house, so you destroy it. When your neighbor complains you say, well the problem is yours now, so fix it.

I’m not a huge admirer of Hillary, even though I’m one of her constituents and voted for her—but I have to say, THAT is an absolutely wonderful and very perceptive quote.  “Hope is not a strategy”—BRILLIANT!