Something else the MSM won't tell you

Because things are just going so well in Iraq. However, people outside the Bush administration see things a little differently.

Arab diplomat Mokhtar Lamani has resigned, disillusioned and nearly drained of hope, after spending months in Iraq trying to coax Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish leaders into peace.

“I am no longer going to stand and watch Iraqis’ bodies being taken to the cemetery,” he said, after arriving in Cairo from Baghdad last week to tender his resignation.

The 54-year-old Moroccan’s mission was the Arab world’s main communal effort to try to help solve the turmoil in what was once one of its most powerful members - a response to criticism from Iraq and the US that Arabs were not doing enough.

But it was a failure, and Lamani blames feeble support from Arab countries, US policies and the unwillingness of Iraq’s deeply divided leaders.

“The help that (Iraq) should get was out of my hands,” Lamani said recently during an interview at a Cairo hotel. “I have no desire to lie to myself or to Iraqis” – confessing that he had “nothing to give.”

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