What Iraqi politicians need more than anything right now is to learn to trust each other.

If it has, the politicians and the news media need to bring out the changes.

"The politicians need to sit and talk, to get on with it."

We have a democracy instead, and politicians need to win votes.

Individual politicians and journalists need to be able to do the same.

Since when do politicians need to know what they are talking about?

So the reason we're all here today is not because some politician needs to knock off one more thing on his 'to do' list.

New/different ideas are needed and politicians need to be willing to try them.

What the public, communities, and local politicians need, though, is legal certainty.

However, the elderly and the politicians need to ask the same question my father asked me.