Call Those Two Running for President

Someone should be informing those guys who are running for President. Interior ministry spokesman Major General Abdel Karim Khalaf said today Iraq was ready to take over security responsibilities from U.S. security forces in Baghdad. Baghdad is now averaging four attacks a day, which according to US statistics was 89 percent less than in 2006, and 83 percent lower than in 2007. A majority of the benchmarks established by Iraq have been met already. It seems fair to state that the picture in Iraq is that any security is tenuous but characterized by clear rubrics.

The candidates are spending quite a bit of time, if they talk about the situation at all, discussing Iraq as if it were 2003. A heads-up Senators, it is 2008.