"... he said he did not understand how U.S. President Barack Obama is able to characterize Iraq as a free, stable and democratic country.
"What sort of Iraq we are talking about?" he asked. "How the Americans will feel proud? How the American administration is going to justify to the taxpayer the billion of dollars that has been spent and at the end of the day the American saying, 'Sorry, we have no leverage even to put things in order in Iraq'?"
Though Iraq's instability may not affect this year's election campaign in the United States, "it is going to affect the American interest in the region, and they should be very much concern about that," al-Hashimi said. "The future of Iraq is grim."" CNN
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The neocons seek to spin this mess that they created into victory in Egypt, etc. Spin away. Spin away! pl
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/30/world/meast/iraq-al-hashimi/index.html?eref=igoogledmn_topstories
