BUSH ADMINISTRATION FINALLY FINDS A GROUP WANTING THE U.S. TO STAY IN IRAQ....GUESS WHAT....IT'S IRAQ

A report about to be released tomorrow will conclude that Iraq has achieved exactly zero of the benchmarks the U.S. government has set down for them. The gang who couldn't shoot straight (the Iraqi version), has achieved no political reforms, no economic reforms, they have achieved no reforms at all. Tony Snow commented that it is unrealistic to believe that any progress would have been made at all, as the surge troops are only now into place.

The report, required by law, is expected to be delivered to Capitol Hill by Thursday or Friday, as the Senate takes up a $649 billion defense policy bill and votes on a Democratic amendment ordering troop withdrawals to begin in 120 days. Also being drafted are several Republican-backed proposals that would force a new course in Iraq, including one by Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Ben Nelson, D-Neb., that would require U.S. troops to abandon combat missions.

Want a plan for our troops and this bloody awful, travesty of an unplanned, poorly executed war that is ripping our country apart?

If they want us to stay, they give us 25% of their oil revenues monthly for as long as we stay, period.

It is the only possible way that the government, and the people of Iraq will get off their asses and actually attempt to make progress. Give us one-forth of your oil revenue or we are out of here. And good luck with that civil war after we are gone. But that is not all. Message to the Saudis, OK you won't lift a finger to help out a neighbor, we want you to kick in some oil revenues as well. You can either give it to us, or spend it waging a war against Iran over who gets the decaying carcass that is the country of Iraq.

We will give you until the end of business Friday.

A recent projection of future costs for occupying Iraq is somewhere between $472billion (if we stay until 2010), and $919billion if we stay until 2013. So pony up. We have spent over $600 billion and we have gotten no where. NOWHERE. So everybody in the region can throw a few hundred billion into the hat, or we are going to let this whole region go to hell in a hand basket. And, oh by the way, anybody who messes with Israel should Google Naga-fucking-saki.