…is by our own Byron York, who reveals what the president said in a session with journalists before the election about holding the Iraqi government’s feet to the fire. There’s an interesting conundrum here. The president clearly felt it necessary over the past two years to assure the Iraqi government and political class that we would never leave until the job got done. Now he’s got to impress on them the fact that if they don’t meet the benchmarks he’ll be setting, they will quite literally reap the whirlwind.