The BushBots say that giving Iraqi PM Malaki the authority to lift checkpoints around Sadr City shows Iraqis and the world that the US is not an occupying nation and that Malaki's the big kahuna.
They conveniently ignore the fact that by backing the pro-Shiite Malaki, they're helping unleash all the Medhi Army fighters of al Sadr. They don't like Sunnis, who will fight back with their own death squads. That's when they're not fighting eachother. Think Somalia.
And then there's that American who was kidnapped Sunday
But wait! He's married to an Iraqi woman!
(CBS/AP) A U.S. soldier kidnapped last week in Baghdad was married to an Iraqi college student and was with his wife and her family when hooded gunmen dragged him out of a house, bound his hands and threw him in the back seat of a white Mercedes, a woman who identified herself as his mother-in-law said Monday.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/30/iraq/main2136752.shtmlAnd where were we looking for this guy and his wife?
And now suddenly the US pulls out from this search?
There's something really fishy going on here.