It does read a bit more like a list of demands. While the palestinian issue would be around anyway. We wouldn't have gotten involved with Iraq in the first place if they hadn't decided to invade Kuwait, we wouldn't have a problem with Iran getting the bomb if you were allies instead of a bunch of people planning to wipe Israel off of the map and who knows what else, and we wouldn't back the Saudi's and some of the other undesireables in the region if we didn't need the allies to deal with the rest of the area.

We'll work with people if they're "Our bastards", but we don't prefir to do so.

And for goodness sakes we all would like to get out of Iraq (except for maybe one military base). You'd think it wouldn't be hard to get people to roll around happily in piles of oil money.