"Very good and safe." Let's all plan our next vacation there.
He said that out of 18 provinces in Iraq, only 3 or 4 are where the problem is.
ONLY three or four.
"Hey, there's FIFTY states! We've only been driven out of 8 or 9!"
He says that elections will be held in January. How, exactly, he will hold an election in a no-go zone he doesn't say. But Rumsfeld, ever helpful, says, what the hey, maybe only three-quarters or so will actually be able to vote. What the problem?
"Let's say you tried to have an election and you could have it in three-quarters or four-fifths of the country. But in some places you couldn't because the violence was too great. Well, so be it. Nothing's perfect in life, so you have an election that's not quite perfect. Is it better than not having an election? You bet."
That's a better ratio than Florida got, right, Donald?
As Husham Mahdi, a 29-year-old in Bagdhad, asks, "How can we hold elections when they will bomb every polling booth?"
I know, details, details. We are being such doooom-and-gloooomers. Why can't we just sing "Whistle a Happy Tune" while watching a televised beheading? What's WRONG with us that we won't just get with the program and deny reality?
Iraq is so safe that Allawi and the whole U.S. Embassy in Iraq conduct business in fortified compounds guarded by tanks, blast walls and barbed wire!
It's so safe that they have gone through 12 police chiefs in Bagdhad since Hussein was taken down and the last one resigned after a few days because he received death threats!
And we KNOW that security is only a problem in three provinces because, after all, suicide bombings are taking place all over the country!
And it's "only a handful" of people! How many is that? A pittance. A handful of people are keeping us out of Fallujah, Najaf, Ramadi, Sammara, Karbala, Tikrit, Bayji, Al Haglanyah, and much of Baghdad! A handful of people are attacking our troops 80 times a day!
>Whew!<
Thank you, Mr. Allawi, for comforting me. I feel so much better now.
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