01.11.06
Another Missed Opportunity
The president apparently
gave control over our military
to prime minister al-Maliki.
Our efforts to find a kidnapped
soldier in Sadr City stalled traffic,
so he made us open our check points.
As the barbed wire came down,
and we delayed the search for the GI,
the streets filled with jubilant Iraqis.
Too bad Bush gave in. If he hadn’t,
the Iraqi leader might have gotten
angry enough to ask us to leave.