John Howard, PM of Australia, "If I was running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008, and pray, as many times as possible, for a victory not only for Obama, but also for the Democrats."


The perverse thing about this notion is that when the US pulls out and the shit totally hits the fan in Iraq it will be al-Qaeda-in-Iraq that will suffer because they don't have any indigenous tribal base. After a fine bloodbath the Iraqi factions will inevitably find common ground to stabilize themselves by destroying al-Qaeda-in-Iraq because it will be an enemy they can all agree on --more foreigners up to no good.