Posted on 08/21/2007 6:41:25 AM PDT by Austin Willard Wright
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 — The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, after completing a two-day tour of Iraq, said Monday that the government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki should be voted from office because it has proved incapable of reaching the political compromises required to end violence there.
Skip to next paragraph The Reach of War Go to Complete Coverage » The Democratic chairman, Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, and the committee’s ranking Republican, Senator John W. Warner of Virginia, who traveled to Iraq together, issued a joint statement that was only slightly more temperate than Mr. Levin’s remarks. They warned that in the view of politicians in Washington, and of the American people, “time has run out” on attempts to forge a political consensus in Baghdad.
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Oh that will convince the Iraqui’s they have a true Democracy—for the US to replace the duly elected leader...uh huh. Great idea. (Not.)
Don’t the moonbats bay about us removing a “democratically” elected leader with Saddam and now the Dems want to remove a democratically elected leader because trhe surge is goingtoo well.
what the hell are they thinking? this is who the iraqis braved death to vote for and elected. he has a term. he has a fragile gov’t. we need political progress. so they go and undermine him? twidle dee and twidle dumb.
is it me or do we have the most bonehead people “running” this country?
Duh...
Warner’s senility has reached epic proportions. Somebody get that man a bib.
Now that the Dems have to admit that the surge is working they need another Strawman to attack...so now instead of the “QUAGMIRE” and “We are losing the War” crap they are going to attack the Iraqi government as flawed, corrupt and inefficient.
“We have the best congress money can buy.”
Samual Clemmens (aka Mark Twain)
It is still true...
That's not correct. The Iraqis voted for lists with delegates for Parliament. It was for months unclear who will be designated Prime Minister by the winning parties. Jafaari and Abdul-Mahdi were for a long time the most likely candidates. But your point is valid nontheless. It is up to the Iraqi parliament and the parties to change or maintain the government, not Dem senators.
Now that is something I could get behind :)
Up yours NYT with my Blue Finger!
Exactly. They finally figured out they get pummeled by the public when they attack the troops as failures, over-stressed psychos, etc., etc. They started the new strategy when they were all complaining about Iraqi legislators going on vacation... that was just before our Congress went on vacation. Now they will move full force ahead as portraying Iraqis as insane, greedy... and "not ready for Democracy" and thus not worth our blood and treasure. Yet they still want some sort of action in Darfur. One wonders what in the minds of liberals makes people in Darfur more worthy than people in Iraq.
You 2 must be reading a different article, as the first line of the one I read suggested that the current govt should be voted out of office, not removed by force.
Gee whiz, everyone loved Levin here yesterday when he praised the surge. Now he is "a moonbat" for criticizing Maliki.
Err....um....Levin has praised the surge and was lauded here yesterday by his fairweather friends at FR.
And Levin is going to run for re-election again and will win. This disgrace to my state and the nation will be in the senate until the day he dies, might even give KKK Byrd a run for the record...
Wait and see. Do you think that Levin will vote with the Republicans the next time the Democrats need another “show-vote”? I don’t.
They ignored the fact that BOTH had observed that The Surge is working.....but then, they’re not interested in getting that message out, are they?
kind of hypocrtical no? maybe they are projecting and deflecting.
Yes, even Rush gave him a bit of a pass yesterday - nonetheless don’t ever trust Levin farther than you can throw him.
Err... um... pardon me, but that’s exactly the point rhombus was making. Levin and fellow dems are praising the surge (military gains) and applaud the troops, because they have realized troop bashing doesn’t fare well with the public. They have shifted their tactic to Iraqi-bashing, with the bottom line “they aren’t worth it, so let’s leave”.
The results, surrender and withdrawal will be the same.
Thanks for correcting me, wouldn’t want to state misinformation. And thanks for recognizing the underlying point I was making, even though premised on a misunderstanding of their election process.
They have shifted their tactic to Iraqi-bashing, with the bottom line “they aren’t worth it, so let’s leave”. (add: “and go help darfur” apparently that’s a more imporant race and central front in the war on terror, or they attacked us or are some threat to us)
i would like to see Levin or Warner step in as an acting Prime Minister for one month in Iraq just to experience what they would be up against and then see how well they fare. Warner needs to go back to being a pretty boy..and Levin ...well he can just go back.
Levin can push his glasses up his nose, maybe he’ll get a better view then.
let’s send ms. clinton and ms. pelosi.
that should work well, /sarc
Can we flip that around and have the Iraqis call for new leadership in the Senate?
“Can we flip that around and have the Iraqis call for new leadership in the Senate?”
Big GRIN. That works for me!
Yep, and we have to spend more today for cheaper and shoddy.
I read that Maliki has shuffled his cabinet to get the benchmarks the Americans want passed. However, some have noted that it might just be meaningless concessions on paper. Bush says the iraqis have passed 60 laws this year. I suppose that those laws express their sense of what is important to them.
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