Steve Kraske has Stephen Hemphill on his show today. Hemphill's title: Senior Consultant - Justice Iraq Reconstruction Management Office for the U.S. State Department. He just returned to Missouri after 17 months at the US Embassy in Iraq as a legal consultant helping to overhaul the mess that was the Iraqi justice system.
He's talking about how patient the Iraqis and our troops are, how hard everyone is working, and how annoying it is to come home as see how impatient the American people are. It's easy to forget (or just not understand) what's going on over there. What we are trying to do is insanely ambitious. Hemphill was involved in building the Iraqi justice system from the ground up, using the few workable building blocks that were left lying around after Saddam. It's like that for every sector of the economy and the entire government.
As usual, most of the callers are moonbats (albeit polite ones, this is Kansas City, after all). All Downing Street Memos, all the time. If I were clever, I'd think of an interesting question and call in.
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