The day before Vice President Dick Cheney was in Iraq pressing Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to make more political progress, 11 moderate GOP House lawmakers met with President Bush and issued their own warning. They told Bush Tuesday that conditions needed to improve in Iraq by this fall or he would lose support from more Republicans. Even more important, they told Bush that the war was unsustainable without public support, which he doesn’t have now. It’s too soon to judge which meeting was more successful.
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Just when you thought the GOP couldn’t get any more cynical……
Al Maliki is the puppet government of the Bush administration.
Bush is the puppet administration of multinational corporations.
And his corporate masters are not pleased . . .
The electorate is so p*ssed off, we could have the will of the people actually REPRESENTED in Washington one of these elections.
The corporatists can’t allow that.
But Bush demands that we “stay the course” with Maliki.
The administration is getting played by this guy. He tells them one thing and then goes to addressing his own agenda. When will the Bushies realize that? Maybe when they cure their Cranial Rectum Inversion.
The band of 11 moderate Republicans going down to help inject some reality at the White House seems like – kind of little, kind of late.
Bush will need a lot more pressure than this. I guess it may be a start.
George W. Bush does not care what anyone else thinks. I don’t think the man cares if every Republican in Congress turned on him (not likely that would ever happen though).
The Iraqi government obviously does not care that much about their freedom or democracy if they are willing to take a 2-month vacation. If these people were so desperate and longing for the US to liberate them – then why all the foot-dragging about setting up their government?
Maliki and his government are typical politicians. From what I see on television news, these people are well-fed and well-dressed people. Are these politicians living in the real world of Iraq as we know it today? They all look like they are living well.
Is this Iraqi government playing both sides of the fence? Are they playing the US for a fool? Why are we willing to continue to suffer casualties for a people who obviously do not want democracy because I do not see this Iraq government doing anything positive except feeding their own faces.
the future of Iraq lies with the people of Iraq. The US cannot make these people fight for their democracy. We should wait out the timeline for the benchmarks to be achieved by the Iraqi government. If not achieved, then start pulling out each and every US soldier until we are all gone.
But that would mean that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have to give up on the Iraq oil – and that will never happen and everyone knows it.
Shiver me timbers…another poisoned topic from the WE Staff.
I liked the comment this morning that asked “is this an intervention or did they have search warrants”.
Too bad it wasnt a reprise of Goldwater et al who paid a call on Nixon to tell him his days as preznit were just about up.
Or maybe it was?
Correct, Steven.
The best thing moderate Republicans could do is just switch parties and become Democrats.
Let the Republicans keep their radical right “base.”
If Dick was ever to shoot somebody else it should have been Malaki. Malaki is no different than the waring factions. BUT – there will never be a safe, secure, Iraq…not until another brutal dictator comes to power. These people in Iraq are nuts…and they truly hate living. It is this behavior that convinces me that Islam is not a religion of love and peace. It is about hatred and death.
It has gone on long enough! Capt said a few days ago that every thing is political, maybe but the real important things are not. As much as there are those that want to make this more a political fight then the war on terrorism. As if both side are aligned with Al-Qaeda and the terrorists are nothing more then a tool in a greater game of politics as usual.
It is time as these republicans that went to the White house have shown, to stop this nonsense and quit making the life’s of our soldiers and our country of no more importance that just another excuse to gig the other side. Watching the Congress debate over the funding is laughable if not a sad joke. The fact that Bush has not once given a real budget, but has funded this mistake with the same emergency funding requests since the beginning over four years ago. He could have submitted a budget then of course if there were overruns request the emergency fund. But now that the Democrats are employing the exact same tactic of only funding for a short time then seeing if more it needed and suddenly the Republicans are saying that will not do!
It is time to put all the politics aside and think of America first… It is far more important then who is getting the brownie points.
Cheney reportedly told the Iraqi leadership, “This isn’t a good time to take a 2-month summer vacation.”
Duh – you think so Dick? Of course, he had his body armor on while visiting Baghdad. Too bad Cheney was too busy seeing that Halliburton got their overpriced profits rather than seeing to it that our soldiers got all the body armor they needed when we first went to war.