[AHerald]

“But,” asked Moran,”if the country had pursued your policy of withdrawing in the face of this horrific violence, what do you think Iraq would look like now?”

Obama said it would be hard to speculate. “The Sunnis might have made the same decisions at that time. The Shii’as might have made some similar decisions based on political calculation. There was ethnic cleansing in Baghdad that actually took the violence level down,” he said.

Nothing quells violence like ethnic cleansing, eh? Can someone please explain what Obama is referring to here?

[rfp1234]

There was ethnic cleansing in Baghdad that actually took the violence level down,” he said.

Obambi, you blooming idiot! By that logic, is today's arrest of Bosnian-Serb butcher Radovan Karadzic a good thing or a bad thing?!