American Intervention

This should come as no surprise to you. Just how much do you like being treated as a baby? Not so much?

Fuck! Neither do the Iraqis.

Mahmoud Othman, a Kurdish lawmaker, has an ax to grind with the United States. He's sick of watching American officials make statements on television every time the Iraqi parliament makes a move.

He was angry when President Bush, last week, said he hoped a law that was supposed to soften restrictions on former Baathists; angry that when the law did pass with a slim majority in the parliament, many linked the passage with his statement An hour later in Bahrain, the President congratulated Iraq on the law's passage, Othman said.

Via Baghdad.