No, sadly our soon to be seated Congress - atleast the new leadership - seems hell-bent on doing just that.
Hmmm... I don't recall Oman sending any troops into Iraq.
It hasn't handed it to them yet...
But, if the Dems and the Baker group has their way, it will.
The Omani FM knows the Iraq Survey Group and the Pentagon will soon release their recommendations for a change of strategy in Iraq. He's using diplo speak to blame the US for the mess there (we started it, we need to clean it up), and to endorse some type of change in strategy. Mr. FM, why won't your country and the other gulf states, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan send peacekeepers to Iraq to help out? You know you wanted Saddam overthrown, and you were happy that we were going to do it. But now when the going is tough you're nowhere to be found, except when you want to speak to the anti-American newspaper "Al Hayat" in London. Pitiful. One more thing, I'm sure you and other Arab countries don't want to see genocide in Iraq (when we leave) when Iran's radical Shia leadership sends in their Revolutionary Guard.
Ps..sst..tt.. Yussef, any charitable contributions to al-Qa'eda lately?
The Omani foreign minister Yussef bin Alawi bin Abdullah, seen here in December 2005, accused the United States in comments published of delivering Iraq to the Islamic militants of Al-Qaeda and called for a change of strategy.(AFP/File/Rabih Moghrabi)