Giving Bush the Purple Finger

Bobo the other day mentioned that Bush is considering taking down the Iraqi Government (that august body elected with all those purple fingers we loved so much before).

Meanwhile, the Iraqi government seems to have an eloquent response to Little Lord Pissypants, telling him to stick his policy up his ass:

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said in an interview with USA TODAY that his government will not force militias to disarm until later this year or early next year, despite escalating violence in Baghdad fueled by death squads and religious warfare.

i.e. Al Sadr doesn't think he is powerful enough yet...

U.S. officials have urged the Iraqi government to take immediate action to reduce the violence. On a visit to Baghdad earlier this month, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the "security situation is not one that can be tolerated and it's not one helped by political inaction."

Two different fantasy worlds, both trapped in a Green Zone of their own minds.

Meanwhile, do my eyes deceive me, or did USA Today actually finally call someone on declaring a "Friedman"?

"The next six months will be critical in terms of reining in the danger of civil war," Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, said in a June interview with a German magazine.