Maybe Barry or Michelle drop by to read the latest on their future fellow-schmoozers in Tehran. So Ahmadinezhad goes to Baghdad and doesn’t need bodyguards or armored cars. He says that’s because Iraqis don’t like Americans, conveniently ignoring the thousands of Iraqis demonstrating against HIM in Baghdad. The reason is simple: he told the terrorists to wait a couple of days. And wonderful General Odierno spells it out, via the great blog, The Captain’s Journal :

The former number two US commander in Iraq charged Tuesday that Iran is still training, funding and arming Shiite extremists in Iraq, with the aim of keeping a weak government in Baghdad. “I think we have to keep the pressure on them,” said Lieutenant General Raymond Odierno, who until recently was second in command in Iraq in charge of day-to-day military operations. “What they ought to stop doing is training surrogates, funding surrogates and supplying weapons to them, which they are still doing today,” he told reporters … Odierno acknowledged that Iraq needed good relations with Iran, but questioned whether Iran is being “helpful,” citing its continued support for Shiite extremists. The general alluded to a boast on Monday by Ahmadinejad that he was able to visit Iraq openly, unlike other foreign leaders who made unannounced visits that lasted just a few hours. “My comment is I’m not surprised. Because over the last 12 months whenever a visitor would come from the United States, we needed to foil a rocket attack, he said. “Guess what? That is because it was being done by an Iranian surrogate.”

How about Odierno for SecState?