Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Someone got greeted with flowers....


...it just wasn't us.


BAGHDAD — It's a damning indication of how poorly things have gone for the United States during its five-year misadventure in Iraq that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can drive in broad daylight though this war-ravaged city and spend the night at the presidential palace, but George W. Bush can't.
Mr. Ahmadinejad was gr
eeted with lavish ceremony yesterday as he became the first Iranian President to visit Baghdad, a trip some said reflected Iran's great and growing power in Iraq and how severely the U.S. effort to remake Iraq into a Western-friendly democracy has gone awry.
Nearly 4,000 American soldiers have died since the war began in 2003, but Iraq's U.S.-backed government warmly welcomed Washington's No. 1 enemy with flowers and a band.

From the Globe and Mail
Darlings, talk amongst yourselves!

2 comments:

Dr. Zaius said...

Cheney was almost right when he said, "we'll be greeted as liberators, with flowers." He was just mistaken as to which country that Iraq would throw garlands to.

Comrade Kevin said...

The liberator arrives and he promises to be a uniter, not a divider.