PM arrives unannounced in Iraq

The Advertiser: PM arrives unannounced in Iraq :

"PRIME Minister John Howard has arrived on an unannounced visit to Baghdad."

Well, I don't expect anyone to announce they are going there. He ought to be there. He helped to cause this, but the fact he has gone over there will enable him, I hope, to get a better understanding of what is happening or not happening and then maybe he will be one of the ones who can help think us out of this dreadful situation. Now we are there, and we helped create the mess, we are co opted into helping fix it. I have said before I do not like the process of co option. It's a weak way to go about things when there are far stronger, deeper, more genuine processes which can occur. I hope he will find something to help the situation because the Americans have been in there trying to talk some things through but we still seem to be in a mess and everyone is still dying. It has to stop. The how is proving to be difficult and yet it will take one thought, only one thought, to turn this around and then a whole heap of effort. What is it? 10 % inspiration and 90% perspiration. We need to straighten our world out not explode it.