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First of all, I’ll join Nathaniel in calling attention to the massive, but forgotten story of Prime Minister al-Maliki’s endorsement of Sen. Obama’s Iraq plan. Like Nathaniel, it’s only in blogs and opinion journals that I find an admission of how earth-shaking this announcement is. This ought to be the one and only domestic story in any serious journalistic outlet. Instead, it’s easier to find Joe Lieberman’s Sharptonesque rhymes (“chose to lose” “retreat and defeat”) on CNN.   If the US ignores (as it surely will under a President McCain) the expressed wishes of a democratic government that our troops end the occupation of their territory, the entire premise of the Iraq War will come tumbling down. We will prove that we have not created an independent democracy and that, regardless of our intentions at the war’s outset, we have instead devolved into old-fashioned imperialism and colonialism despite the Kiplingesque justifications we will doubtless hear. (more…)