Another chance for the Left to get it wrong

BAGHDAD – Iraq’s major political parties finalised alliances on Saturday ahead of Dec. 15 polls that will select the first full four-year parliament since the 2003 ouster of Saddam Hussein. Should give the Left weeks of predicting doom, gloom and mahem followed by the normal silence; then rationalization of why so many voted. Of course the piece has to start and finish with US forces casualty lists. Can’t mention Iraq without trying just one more time to lessen the resolve of the US.