This came out late last night, and so it didn't really make any of the news reports. But it is still quite amazing in that the comments are coming from the Prime Minister of one of Bush's strongest Iraq invasion allies.
TALLBERG, Sweden - Poland's prime minister said Monday that postwar nation-building efforts in Iraq have "failed totally," but expressed hope that the country's different religious groups can work together to build an independent nation.
Prime Minister Marek Belka, whose country has been a close U.S. ally since the invasion of Iraq, said the United States and its allies made a mistake by basing its postwar plan for Iraq on the same model used for Germany after World War II.
"It failed totally," Belka said at a panel discussion on nation-building at an international forum in Sweden. "Many mistakes, major mistakes, have been committed."
Poland has commanded a multinational force in Iraq since September 2003, although the force's size has shrunk from 9,500 troops to 4,000.
One can't help but wonder if this will lead to additional coalition members beginning to speak out more honestly.
On a (somewhat) unrelated note, Sunday papers don't ask no questions, Sunday papers don't get no lies, Sunday papers don't raise objections, Sunday papers ain't got no eyes.