Our Nobel Peace Prize winning boy king is losing Iraq folks. The Obama administration, in just 9 months, has spooked all American favoring political party's into re-positioning themselves as something entirely different. Anti-American grandstanding is on the up. I'm wondering when the inevitable Iranian takeover and the sure to be bloodshed starts up again, how that Nobel Peace Prize is gonna look hanging around Hopey's neck.
Behind all this are Obama's hints that he might speed up the withdrawal of US forces before 2011, short-circuiting the Status of Forces Agreement signed by the Bush administration. The American president's obvious attitude has hurt Iraqi politicians who advocate strategic alliance with Washington.
"Obama is not interested in Iraq," says analyst Ma'ad Fayyad. "This is because, if Iraq succeeds as the first Arab democracy, it might look as if Bush was right after all."
Obama's tepid, not to say hostile, attitude toward Iraq's new democracy has some Iraqi politicians recasting themselves as anti-Americans.
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