I was reading the news about about how the news isn't reporting news about Iraq.

It's no wonder. After the 2006 election, when they really did some reporting on Iraq and even made the military change tactics, conservatives cried out that all the news from Iraq was bad news, when there was plenty of good news. Going into the next election, a Presidential election, the US Media is scared to death about being blamed by whoever ends up losing. It's happened before.

Tired of the constant bickering between Hillary and Obama, and worried by McCain's frequent senior moments about the war of all things, I started digging for news from Iraq.

One report told of the ubiquitous electricity problems in Baghdad. I wondered, do they enjoy TV as much as Americans? Does the Iraqi President come on and talk about problems with Turkey and Syria or maybe even Iran?

Truthfully, it must be miserable trying to live in a war zone with little to no electricity most of the year. I realized that, if I was an Iraqi, I wouldn't care at all what Maliki or any other Iraqi official wanted to say (sort of how I feel about Bush, but worse). In fact, I would want to hear from the rich Americans who are basically the Iraqi Army and Police who had caused all these problems with their terrible planning in removing Saddam. I would want to hear directly from the US President about what the plan is to fix this mess.

So, has Bush ever addressed the Iraqi people? Has he ever said how we were going to solve the electricity problem that we caused by blowing the place to smitherines in 1991? Has he given a speech to them about racial tolerance, the way Obama did last week for the US?

Wouldn't it be great if the next President was willing to talk directly to the Iraqi people and tell them what the plan is for them, instead of always insisting that any talk would compromise national security?

Even wars started for the wrong reason can go well. But, we've done nothing but f*@& the Iraqi people over. It's why the rest of the world hates us so much. All we seem to be able to do is break things really well.

If we're going to spend three trillion dollars for this project, I'd like to leave it looking pristine. I doubt that can be accomplished by a military that won't even listen to a gay man's perspective.