8 years of GW failed policy……it’s enough!! Yah, once the Democrats take the White house, these clowns will all be history and the mess, again, will be the Dems to clean up. You’d think Americans would see the pattern here.

The US ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, has told the Washington Post newspaper that he intends to leave his post early next year, to retire.

Reports have said Mr Crocker may leave Baghdad as soon as mid-January, before a new American president takes office.

Mr Crocker has repeatedly said that US troop withdrawals from Iraq should depend on conditions on the ground and not on timetables set in Washington.

This puts him at odds with the policies of some presidential candidates.

“I am prepared to remain in Baghdad until early 2009, when I intend to retire,” Mr Crocker told the Washington Post.

“That will make two years in Iraq and 37 years in the Foreign Service - it’s enough!”

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