This is too noxious for dumbass

The line below does not come from some mouthbreather like Loree Kowalski (see below) in a letter to the editor. This comes FROM the editor, an editorial in the Chicago Tribune in response to calls for a partitioning of Iraq:

A splintered Iraq means that it will never emerge as a bulwark for democracy and freedom in the Arab world.

And I'll never probably get a pony.

The unspoken assumption is that this ill-conceived fraud of a "government" that 1) was imposed from outside by an occupying power, 2) has no internal credibility and 3) cannot even control its capital, even with U.S. military presence may one day "emerge as a bulwark for democracy and freedom."

The odds are better that I'll get a pony.