The Great Black Hope

A Midwestern congressional delegation that included Democratic rising star Sen. Barack Obama had a blunt assessment Saturday for Iraq's political leaders: Shape up, or America will ship out.

The continued U.S. commitment to Iraq is becoming a tougher sell back home, said the delegation of four legislators, and unless Iraqis can start showing visible signs of progress by creating a broad-based government and security forces inclusive of all of Iraq's ethnic and sectarian groups, Americans will lose patience, they said.

"It's going to be hard to convince American taxpayers to pour water into a leaky bucket," said Obama, the first-term Illinois senator, speaking briefly with reporters inside Saddam Hussein's Republican Palace, now used as an annex for the U.S. Embassy.

This coming just a few days after the United Stated bombed an Iraqi family to smithereens. Nobody even knows how many people are bombed to smithereens every day -- we're told, simply, that the "Multinational Force" is running an ever-increasing number of sorties over Iraq.

But we'll wait in vain, one presumes, for the motherfucker to exhort the U.S. military to "shape up". Or for him to complain that it's going to be hard to convince the American taxpayers to continue to pour money into the leaky bucket inside the "Green Zone" -- though this particular bucket is missing billions of taxpayer dollars.

Posted by Eddie Tews at January 8, 2006 12:43 PM