powerlineblog.com - 9/23/2008
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Mithal al-Alusi is a member of the Iraqi parliament. A week ago, using a German passport, he visited Israel and...
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What kind of Iraq?
Yourish.com —
... unharmed.
The State Department in its infinite fecklessness refuses to get involved, claiming that this is an internal Iraq matter.
Israel Matzav covered this first, so let’s quote him:
Is this what hundreds of American troops died for in Iraq? To create yet another Arab country that lives in the 8th century in eternal hatred of Jews (and rest assured that Christians will be next on the list).
Powerline seems resigned to the State Department’s refusal to say anything: ...
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