Now there's an idea. "Heal rifts."

"BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Iraq urged leaders of rival religious and ethnic groups on Monday to shelve what he called "I win, you lose" politics and speed up progress on laws crucial to fostering national reconciliation."

The Bushies are so good at that. Reconcilliations R US. The "R" stands for "Republican". And the "US" is a pun.

"U.S. officials are frustrated by the reluctance of parties to compromise and by slow progress on a draft law on sharing oil revenues and rolling back a ban on former members of Saddam Hussein's party holding office that affects mainly Sunni Arabs."

The Bushies wouldn't seem to be a living example of compromise, though, unless it's defined as, "You agree with me 100% and we'll compromise." The Iraqis don't have a great model there. The Bushies are good at putting up walls, though.

"In a new military tactic to stop the bombers, U.S. troops have begun walling off some flashpoint neighborhoods in Baghdad with concrete barriers, but the move has drawn sharp criticism from some Sunni and Shi'ite political parties."

"Maliki said on Sunday he had ordered the U.S. military to stop work on a 12-foot (3.6-metre) high barrier around the Sunni neighborhood of Adhamiya."

But al-Maliki wants work to stop. No wall. And he's the Leader of This Great Democracy for which we're buying time. However, the US, in this Iraqi democracy, has other ideas.

"Neither he nor U.S. military spokesman Rear Admiral Mark Fox would say whether construction of the Adhamiya wall would be stopped. Fox said the erection of barriers around Baghdad's markets and neighborhoods was approved by Iraq's government."

I'm sure they have a building permit. The wall was approved by "the government". The hell with al-Maliki and democracy and self-rule, and turning it over. Now this wall isn't like the Israeli wall. Not at all.

"He rejected comparisons to the wall being built by the Israelis. "They are completely different situations and no comparisons should be drawn," McCormack told reporters."

Entirely different. This one's not Israeli. How much different can you get?

So, here we are. Another person saying there can't be a military victory. He must not be really a Conservative.

"I think the Baghdad security plan ... can buy time, but what it does is buy time for what it ultimately has to be -- a set of political understandings among Iraqis. So I think these months ahead are going to be critical," Crocker said."

Sort of like all the generals. Everyone but the CinC, who is still going for a military victory against all experience and advice. Because Daddy Bush's friends said to go for a political victory, and Junior does know better.

If folks weren't dying it would be funnier than hell!

Arf