Nick Sarkozy is a good friend of my family. Whenever we used to visit France, we would always have breakfast with him... I remember one time when I was child, and he took me on a tour of Napoleon III's residence in the Louvre. Another time we all traveled to Hungary, where his family is from. Yes, if you didn't know, Sarkozy is not a French name.
I was surprised by the content but unsurprised that one of his comments today was extremely intelligent:

In what was seen as a reference to Mr Chirac, who has not ruled out running for president for a third time, Mr Sarkozy said presidential mandates should be restricted to two. "The energy spent on staying [in power] is not spent on doing," he said.

I've been listening to several books on the Al-Fallujah battle. We could have been in and out in six days in the beginning, the trouble was that dumbass Bush was trying to get re-elect and fucked it all up. After the corpses were hung off the bridge (god damn, I'll never forget that picture in the NYT), Bush ordered the Marines in. Then the UN Ambassador (a Sunni) and some motherfuckers on the council threatened to resign. Bush told the marines to come back out. This meant that our guys died for no fucking reason. That was just the short term. After numerous difficulties in between, we went back in the end of 2004 and lost a lot of guys--because of Bush. That was bullshit, and it was the result of electoral pressures, and this si the relevance of Sarkozy. Although it is great that we get to know our presidents and figure out how they act and can re-elect them, the fact that they have to fight for re-election is completely fucked up when we are in a war.
We lost guys and allowed a terrorist stronghold to be created because of our electoral system. I am drunk right now, and probably irrational. But think about this: a six-year presidency restricted to one term. Do what ever the fuck you want. But do not, under any circumstances, compromise what you think is right because you are afraid of not getting re-elected. That is bullshit and immoral, and even though I support the Iraq war in general, it makes me want to spit in Bush's face that he got our soldiers killed so he can remain in power.