Cheney Runs Iraq

"Did Cheney's visit have anything to do with al Maliki's attack on Basra?"

Of course. Cheney/Bush are the rulers in Iraq--Maliki a puppet and Sadr, someone who wants us out of there. Hence the battle. Cheney saw Sadr gaining influence and a strong contender to win upcoming vote in Iraq. Cheney doesn't want to leave the place. Along with McCain he'd stay for 100 years. Plus, he doesn't care what people think. He's the guy who said “so" when told most people want us out of there.

To that I can only say what I said yesterday:
Hamlet-like in Iraq! Should we stay, should we leave??? Oh ghost help me!

Fellow imperialists, Max Boot fans, assorted neo-cons and oil users--look at it this way:

We're getting sucked dry by the fight in Iraq--3 trillion down the tubes! Our military uses more oil there then Iraq is sending back. We're just like the old USSR who went broke fighting in Afghanistan. And who is benefiting from our empire's decline? Why Russia, China, India.

Wise up saps! It's time to end the Hamlet stay/go paralysis and leave the joint.

As for our prospects for leaving, I do not have much hope:

Foreign policy-wise not much will change with Obama or Hillary. We still have the axis-of-evil who run US foreign policy: Wall Street/Pentagon/Florida Cuban exiles--stick in AIPAC for a quartet-of-evil.

I think the Iraqis themselves will settle this one and boot us out, just like it was the Vietnamese that got us out of Vietnam.