Aide: Iraqi leader using U.S. angstSTEVEN R. HURST and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRAAssociated PressBAGHDAD, Iraq – After a hastily arranged video conference with George Bush, Iraq’s prime minister said Saturday that the U.S. president promised to move swiftly to turn over full control of the Iraqi army to the Baghdad government. A close aide to Nouri al-Maliki said later the prime minister was intentionally playing on U.S. voter displeasure with the war to strengthen his hand with Washington.

Hassan al-Suneid, a member of al-Maliki’s inner circle, said the video conference was sought because issues needed airing at a higher level than with U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad.

Al-Suneid said the prime minister complained to Bush that Khalilzad, an Afghan-born Sunni Muslim, was treating the Shiite al-Maliki imperiously.

“The U.S. ambassador is not (L. Paul) Bremer (the former U.S. administrator in Iraq). He does not have a free rein to do what he likes. Khalilzad must not behave like Bremer but rather like an ambassador,” al-Suneid quoted al-Maliki as saying.

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/breaking_news/15875302.htm

And I resent these wackos hijacking the label Christian. What they are doing is anything but Christian.

so we have power hungry, greed driven sheeple who will listen to any soundbite thrown to them by the likes of Rush, Hannity, Coulter and etc. These sheeple think they are better than the rest of us because they are the holy ones.

But pride goeth before the fall and I believe the country is fed up with all this self righteousness and fake piety on the part of these Religious Righties.

Republicans should stay home and not vote, this country’s future depends on it.

It took a lot of blood and sacrifice to build our Constitutional Democracy and this all-important election is all that stands in the way of losing our country.

That may be difficult for some to understand, but just one look at Iraq should give you a clue as to what this Bush Administration is really up to. There is a lot of hype as to why we’re there, but not one good reason.

And that is what is in the hearts of those who now occupy the White House.

If you can’t vote democratic, then just don’t vote.

We’ve sure got ourselves a mess to clean-up.

The number of poor has risen. Where did they come from? The lower middle class, and even some middle middle class. These people are being ignored, while those who have the floor and the MSM are telling us that we’re in a fiscal recovery. Uh huh.

The housing market is slipping, sometimes sliding.

Jobs of all kinds are being shipped overseas. As someone else mentioned, how do the rich and this administration figure we’ll be a consumer nation when more and more people aren’t able to consume, thanks to the drop in the number of jobs?

Stop listening to what they want you to hear and take a look around. A year ago, I was yard-saling with my daughter in Derby. I saw tons of House for Sale and House for Rent signs on every block. Don’t you wonder why? And these were in the more affluent areas of Derby.

Listen to the people who used to have good jobs. Listen when they tell you that they’re now working at McDonalds, if they could even GET a job at McDonalds and weren’t considered over-qualified.

Stop thinking about yourself, because if you don’t, pretty soon you’re going to be among the ones who have slipped between the cracks. It can happen to anyone.

UNDEREMPLOYMENT. Say that word 25 times a day until it sinks in.

We’re going to pay, eventually, whether next year or in 3 years. Our children will also pay, along with our grandchildren and possible even great-grandchildren if we don’t start paying off some of this debt soon.

Keep in mind that the national debt figures do NOT include the cost of this fiasco in Iraq. At the time, the majority backed the war, but when it comes time to pay for it, nobody wants to. Instead, we’ll ALL pay for it, and we’ll keep paying for generations until we put an end to wasting the lives of our men and women, not to mention innocent people, and the money it takes to put them there.

Face it. There’s no way we can’t pay down the debt, unless you want to be owned by China and other countries. Is that what you want?

#9, Harriet Miers.

It would be immoral and damned unAmerican to NOT do so.

I don’t understand you Tracy. First you complain that we’re overburdened financially, then you say that we should all just vote Democrat and pay more (not less) so in the long run our kids pay less? And how pray tell, does that work?

How is #9 a reason to not vote Republican?

I love you too.

I’m asking Republicans that if they can’t vote democratic, then just stay home. The democrats must wrest control away from these lunatics in the White House and rid ourselves from them, then we can all go back to debating issues important to both-sides of the isle.

Right now loyal Americans need to think about America first, then after we get our country back, we’ll go at it and call each other every name in the book.{ partisanship }

Therefore 10 reasons why the GOP doesn’t deserve anyone vote on Tuesday.

It would be immoral and damned unAmerican to NOT do so.

Unless George W. Bush plans to hand over the family fortunes of every person who has benefitted financial from this war, expect to pay more taxes.

If you don’t want to pay down the debt THIS PRESIDENTS AND THE REPUBLICAN HOUSE AND SENATE have incurred, start learning Chinese.

You keep following the same old, same old that enabled GW to stay in office in 2004 (an election that is still being questioned), and not only will the Republicans lose one part of Congress, they’ll lose both AND the presidency.