Big surprise. The Left has to maintain an outpost in a nation that they had vociferously and traitorously tried to hand over to Al-Qaeda for their Democrat allies' political gain.

Now that their efforts have been thwarted by the success of Bush and McCain's surge strategy, but their Marxist ally Obamination has been elected President, they have new hope that they can yet help Al-Qaeda set up a new outpost in the Middle East and see their vile strategy succeed. They want to be the ones to shoot the video of the last American helicopter taking off from the roof of the American Embassy in Iraq just like in South Vietnam so that they can crow, "See, I told you so!" and get their Pulitzer prize. There is no depth to the evil of the New York Slime.

Would be interesting to know who the consultants and middlemen on that deal were and what percent their cut.