October 04, 2008

AP: Stable Iraq Could Influence Middle East

Inconvenient truth, courtesy of that eeeevil Rethuglikkkan propaganda outlet known as the Associated Press.

BAGHDAD (AP) — As violence in Iraq recedes, neighboring states are pondering how to deal with an unwieldy country that could re-emerge as a key player along with Saudi Arabia and Iran in one of the world’s most strategic regions.

The role of regional power broker may seem far-fetched for Iraq — a devastated land best known for car bombs, death squads and suicide attackers.

Still, countries of the Middle East cannot ignore the potential role of a resurgent Iraq, a nation of 28 million people, bordering Iran to the east, Syria and Jordan to the west and sitting on one of the world’s major pools of oil.

For those reasons, the United States cannot afford to lose focus on Iraq, which will remain a strategic and important country even after the last of the 140,000 American soldiers have gone home.

History is winning, narrative formation is losing in Iraq. Maybe they didn't get the Obama talking points memo or the Important Action Alert from ThinkRegress, but Iraq is not falling into the narrative mandated for them by the Democrats.

Following Barack Obama's "plan" for Iraq, this would never have happened.

BUSH DOCTRINE: 1
ANTIWAR IGNORAMUSES: -4

Thanks for nothing, leftards.

By Good Lt. at 10:20 AM | |