Iraq Elections 2010

The New York Times: Interesting Op - Ed article by Thomas Friedman, how important Iraq still is to American Foreign Policy, Friedman writes the following on Iraq, " Six years after the U.S. invasion, Iraq continues to unnerve and tantalize. " As Mr Friedman points out of if Obama can make Iraq work this could be more important than Afghanistan, as a working Arab Democracy would be a major threat to Iran. It would be ironic if the only foreign policy success for Obama would be Iraq, he ran against the Bush surge when he was running for President but so far has kept the troops in Iraq and is following the agreement between Bush 43 and the Iraqi government for the withdraw of American combat troops by 2010 and all US forces by 2011. But lets get real here folks, if Iran goes nuclear then Iraq might ask the USA to keep military bases in Iraq, or of course Israel could hit Iran and then Iran would attack US bases in Iraq. Thus the USA is not out of the woods yet in Iraq.