Posted on 08/22/2007 6:50:32 AM PDT by SE Mom
The Bush administration supports the Maliki administration and always has. This is nothing but liberal biased DBM propaganda to smear our great leader. Ignore all the traitors and defeatists among us, as they continue to believe these lies that the media print.
Ok, I don’t really believe what I just wrote, but I wanted to see how dumb it looked. Mr. Maliki speaks fluent english and has flipped us (the US) off more times than we can count.
“Of course they will look for other patrons and partners. Maliki and the Shias naturally will look to Iran.”
Totally agree. Maliki is quite possibly the Shia’s one and only shot at this, except for a widespread escalation of their violence, which at this time still appears very factional and uncoordinated.
I think Maliki’s next act will be to invoke Colin Powells statement that we will leave when asked.....and that....with the “friends elsewhere” threat above is I think exactly what Levin et al are shooting for, possibly set into motion by Pelosi when she visited Syria, from where Maliki has just returned, hint hint.
Ping
Which is precisely Iraq's problem. We freed them. They did not free themselves. As such they have less invested in that freedom. Our leaders were intimately involved in our overthrowing England's yoke. Iraq's new leaders played little or no part in overthrowing Saddam.
Well, when we have Congressional loudmouths spouting off about the need to "remove" an elected Iraqi government, or constantly musing about whether we should impose this or that set of "benchmarks" or "timetables" on the Iraqi government's actions regarding what (we insist) they must and must not do or accomplish by this or that date, and none of this (I assume) comes from or is in accordance with the Iraqi constitution - in other words, I doubt the constitution has a provision such as "at all times, the Iraqi government must do whatever some U.S. congressman insist it must do, by the dates the U.S. congressman insists it does it" - then I can sorta forgive him for saying that the U.S. doesn't care about the Iraq constitution.
As for the rest of it, the "find friends elsewhere" stuff, seems to me this is just the usual Arab politician walking a tricky tightrope and triangulating. Arab politicians who don't, or don't know how to, do this are liable to end up dead.
Because in fairness, you have to understand that this guy, like all members of the Iraqi government, faces an ongoing prospect of him and his family being murdered. At present he is allied with us and that fact helps protect him, but one suspects he is preparing for the day when he can no longer rely on the U.S. - and I can't honestly say he is wrong to do so.
Yes.
Washington was a remarkable guy. I am reading “1776” right now...we sure were lucky.
Didn’t you have some information on Al-Maliki that shines light on this guys past?
Connecting the dots.
Two words: Military Coup
“Hate to say it, but Iraq will never be stabilized until another brutal, ruthless dictator takes it over and suppresses all opposition.”
In the same way the Russians kept the lid on the Balkans. To paraphrase a previous poster to this thread, they (the Iraqis) are children playing in an adult world.
“I am reading “1776” right now”
That’s a great read!
Think again. The Democrats give a rat's a** for Iraq and it's constitution, and they make no secret out of it. The rats are now the majority in Congress.
No. I think he’s telling the (US)dem-holes to go pound salt. Good for him.
Sadly, al-Maliki is the quintessinal 16th century Arab—all bluster and bombast and no substance beyond the perimeter of his tent or village. I expect we’ll go through a lot of these tribalists before we find one or two Iraqis with truly national and international visions. Taking out Sadr and his thugs will go far toward neutralizing al-Maliki and his ilk. It would be interesting to know if this poor excuse of a leader ever gets up enough courage to leave the Green Zone in Baghdad and visit the people he claims to love.
I liked the first Iraqi Prime Minister better. The one in the Transitional Government.. I can’t remember his name. And no, I dont mean Bremmer.
Perhaps he is delusional and is hoping for military support from The Grand Duchy of Fenwick.
“Mr. Maliki speaks fluent english...”
If so, then his little speech to the joint session in DC in Arabic with a 3-day unshaven face was more of a message to the Arab world than I thought at the time, since some newsfolk claimed he didn’t/couldn’t speak english. I was disgusted with that spectacle then, and now to learn he speaks english makes it even more disgusting.
Not to defend Bush..but we didn’t invade specifically to install a Democracy. We invaded to remove a threat.
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