Italian PM Berlusconi Living in Bush-World

Berlusconi said yesterday, "It's important that the international community remains in Iraq to keep public order and so that a democratic and united state can be formed" Remains? The problems all track back to the President's inability or unwillingness to follow his father's example and build an international consensus before invading. It's a little late. Apparently Berlusconi wasn't listening last Saturday when UN envoy Ashraf Qazi "said that the continued violence meant that it was too dangerous for international observers to come to Iraq in significant numbers to monitor the poll." And in more news on the dwindling coalition Bulgaria and Ukraine "are withdrawing forces this month and a half-dozen others are debating possible pullouts or reductions"