Posted on 10/05/2006 8:29:43 AM PDT by SmithL
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) --
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, making an election-season visit to Iraq, said Thursday she will tell its leaders they have limited time to settle political differences spurring sectarian and insurgent violence.
"They don't have time for endless debate of these issues," Rice said during a news conference aboard her plane. "They have really got to move forward. That is one of the messages that I'll take, but it will also be a message of support and what can we do to help."
Rice said Iraqis must resolve for themselves complex problems such as the division of oil wealth, possible changes to the national constitution and the desire for greater autonomy in various regions of the country.
"Our role is to support all the parties and indeed to press all the parties to work toward that resolution quickly because obviously the security situation is not one that can be tolerated and it is not one that is being helped by political inaction," she said.
Car bombs, as well as other explosions and shootings, killed 34 people across the country Wednesday. At least 21 U.S. soldiers have been killed since Saturday, a disproportionately high number. Most of the casualties have been in Baghdad amid a massive security sweep by American and Iraqi forces that has been going on since August.
A military transport plane that flew Rice and her party into Baghdad Thursday had had its landing delayed by 35 minutes by "indirect fire" — either from mortar rounds or rockets — in the airport area, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters.
Rice was meeting Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other officials as the sectarian spiral of revenge killings between Shiites and Sunnis threatened to undermine his government. Th
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I won't waste my time "articulating" it for you when President Bush has done such a fine job of it.
Reading is our friend!
June 28, 2005:
Iraq War
Our mission in Iraq is clear.
We're hunting down the terrorists.
We're helping Iraqis build a free nation that is an ally in the war on terror.
We're advancing freedom in the broader Middle East.
We are removing a source of violence and instability, and laying the foundation of peace for our children and our grandchildren.
November 30, 2005:
National Strategy for Victory in Iraq
January 10, 2006:
Fact Sheet: Progress and the Work Ahead
March 18, 2006:
Fact Sheet: Operation Iraqi Freedom: Three Years Later
September 2006:
National Strategy for Combating Terrorism
September 5, 2006:
Fact Sheet: The President's National Strategy for Combating Terrorism
September 5, 2006:
In Their Own Words: What the Terrorists Believe, What They Hope to Accomplish, and How They Intend to Accomplish It
Excellent! Please forward to the WH. ;*)
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Any time one begins offensive operations, casualties go up.
Not yet....no rain here yet. Beautiful, sunny autumn morning here. :-)
I had coffee on the upper terrace earlier this morning, just listening to the birds and the quiet.
(Which has since been shattered....once.)
True. I know a number of Shiite-Sunni married couples, as well as Shiite-Sunni business partners.
Most Iraqis seem puzzled by all this media talk of "sectarian" stuff. They know better than the liberals/media that it's primarily Iran (Sadr) and al Qaeda trying to cause sectarian tensions and most of them aren't buying into their baiting.
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