Now let me make sure I understand this. We will hand over “sovereignty” to Iraq on June 30, but they won’t be able to command their own armed forces, and they won’t be able to make their own laws. If George III had offered this “opportunity” for self-government to our Patriot forbears during the Revolutionary War, much laughter and gunfire would have ensued. Please remember that these words were written by people who overthrew a legal government.
In the meantime Fallujah is officially a quagmire. Oh yeah, and we have more reports of American snipers shooting schoolchildren. What a clever way to defuse the situation.
Speaking of schoolchildren, back in the United States, a licensed, state certified and probably “highly qualified” teacher ordered a student thrown out a window. I have spoken about “No Child Left Behind” before, and cannot understand why we can’t get people like this permanently out of the classroom. Want to promote excellent schools? How about we promote enough independent thought that this girl’s classmates realize that’s a bad idea?