Who's Laughing Now?

It's not often that a news article about the US failures in Iraq makes me laugh, but then today I read this headline:

Iraqis to Pay China $100 Million for Weapons


Huh, I thought. I wonder what that's all about. The summary of the article said:

Robin Wright and Ann Scott Tyson for The Washington Post report that "Iraq has ordered $100 million worth of light military equipment from China for its police force, contending that the United States was unable to provide the materiel and is too slow to deliver arms shipments."

I can't help it. That's funny. The US gave plenty of equipment to Iraqi police forces. The problem was that it ended up in the hands of insurgents who'd infiltrated the police units and then used against the Americans.

For Iraq to spin the issue so that the US is to blame, ahh, irony. It knows no nationality. It's too bad the only measure of success we've had in the country we've liberated from the evildoers is such a cerebral one.

Oh, and by the way, in case you were wondering Baghdad is now down to two hours a day. Last year at this time it was six. Now that's progress!

~Lila Schow
Because Responsible Citizens Clean Up After Their Government http://goodusgov.org/