Iraqi Labor Chief Calls for Troops to Exit

[Rose Siding]

STONY BROOK, N.Y. -- An Iraqi labor leader on Thursday called for the immediate withdrawal of coalition forces from his country, rejecting suggestions that a civil war would erupt without the U.S. military there.

"We don't expect any of that to happen, especially a civil war that they're talking about; that will not happen," Adnan A. Rashed, a member of the executive board of the Iraqi Federation of Labor, said at a speech at Stony Brook University on Long Island.

Rashed also said his countrymen are ready to immediately take over from occupation forces.

"There was an election for a general assembly, there is government and there are people who are responsible in government," he said. "We believe that Iraqis are more familiar with the country and they can take care of themselves and their country better than others."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/23/AR2005062301433.html

[brokensymmetry]

1. Now if the Soviets were in charge...

they would simply put him in a "mental institution" for "treatment."

Of course, we would never, ever even think of such a thing. (:sarcasm: at it's worst)

As for how long Mr. Rashed will be around before he has a fatal accident...well, that's a whole 'nother question. Ain't it?