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Why We Need Iran to Help Get Us out of Iraq

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Are the media dumb or just out to lunch?

how else can one explain the meager attention paid to the truly historic visit of

Ahmadinejad to Iraq?

Not only is he the first Mideast head of state to visit the country since its alleged liberation, but the very warm official welcome offered by the Iraqi government to the most vociferous critic of the United States speaks volumes to the abject failure of the Bush doctrine

we have put the disciples of the Iranian ayatollahs in power in Baghdad

There is no face-saving exit from Iraq without the cooperation of Tehran, and the folks who call America the "Great Satan" now hold the high cards

Ahmadinejad,

was able to convoy in from the airport in broad daylight on a road that U.S. dignitaries fear to travel

unlike a U.S. president who has to be airlifted unannounced into ultra-secure bases

His love fest with Iraq President

a Kurd who fought on Iran's side

who speaks Farsi

outside of the safety of the Green Zone