WELL THIS IS NOT HELPFUL

Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric has urged the United Nations not to endorse the country's interim constitution, his office said Monday, raising a potentially grave obstacle to U.S. plans to hand power to Iraqis on July 1.

Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani told senior U.N. official Lakhdar Brahimi in a letter that unless the United Nations rejects the constitution, he would boycott a U.N. team expected to visit Iraq soon to advise on forming an interim government.

Neither is this:

Former President Carter says Iraq war was based on lies

Once upon a time it was considered in very poor form for former Presidents to critique sitting Presidents. It sure seems to me that former Democrat Presidents don't see it that way anymore.

But I do...and I reckon a whole lot of America does too.