Rice used her visit to praise Maliki's choice to take on the militia. Fighting Sadr, who has declared that resistance against U.S. forces is legitimate, is an "internal Iraqi matter," she said.
"But clearly, the prime minister has laid down some ground rules which any functioning democratic state would insist upon, having to do with, you know, arms belonging to the state, not to -- not in private hands," she said. "The current circumstances come out of what I think is a very important and indeed appropriate action that the Iraqi government has taken."
so .. umm .. wonder how she feels about the 2nd amendment ...
[adding just before i hit "publish"] Noticed that this may look a shameless ripoff of a post by hubris sonic over at GroupNewsBlog but umm .. well .. great minds think alike?
at least i beat one of my heroes, Jane Hamsher, to the "john mccain as a gigolo" idea
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