The Iraqi parliament is planning to take a two-month recess starting this July with or without much-needed resolutions for lowering sectarian tensions or reaching other benchmarks. That’s understandably infuriating politicians from both sides of the aisle in Washington.
“If they go off on vacation for two months while our troops fight — that would be the outrage of outrages,” said Rep. Chris Shays, R-Conn.
Added Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb.: “I certainly hope they’re not going to take any sort of recess when the question is whether they’re going to make any progress.”
Posted by Ross Stewart
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Our Congress doesn’t have any trouble going on vacation for months while we are at war so why are they complaining about the Iraqi Congress??
Yeah it would be hell but if I was President while my troops are fighting and dieing I would bar the door and be drug out unconscious to bed. A foggy mind does not make sound judgments but I am offended that they are doing little of nothing to bring their own country under control then going on a two month break.
Perhaps America should go on a two month break in Iraq too!
Very simple kev – they have still NOT fulfilled their pledges to give equal status to their different ethnic groups.
Perhaps we should give our soldiers a two-month break too.
Our president has no problem taking more vacation than any president in history while we’re at war.
. . .and people still support this war?
When you have both a prez and the whole Iraq parliment taking “vacations” in the middle of a war, brought to you courtesy of the neo-con war machine, then what the hell are our finest dying for?
I said it before and I’ll say it again and again ; get our people out of a country that has been fighting an internal, and external, religious fascist war for over 2000 years, and let them either bring their country together, or not.
We’ve had a tinhat administration attack a country ruled by a tinpot dictator. Anybody else see something wrong with that picture?
Freakin stupid, stupid, stupid!
So…is this going to be a paid vacation? Well, I guess they may as well go on vacation. The Iraqi parliament is not going to slve the problems of Iraqi. As soon as the Americans leave, another dictator, like Hussain, will take power by force. That dictator will be a Shite or a Sunni and he’ll start killing the Kurds and the Shite or Sunni, and Iraq will return to pre-2003, and on and on…
There is some brush that needs to be cleared in Iraq so it’s time for the leaders to take a vacation.
Just as well send them on vacation, they aren’t doing squat anyway.
I feel a lot safer when Bushdabum is in Texas anyway.
They’re not legitimate, so they fear for their lives. Better to leave and be safe than to stay and face the reality of being killed…..makes sense.
Those appearing to support this so-called war are Israeli firsters or Israeli plants.
Nobody in his right mind would urge this “thing” on.
You can spot them, as they use the misnomer “terrorist.”
Did Shays conclude with “now if you’ll excuse me, I have a junket I have to catch.”
If the future success of this war is totally in the hands of the democratically elected Iraqi government, then the US is screwed whether these pinheads take a 2 month vacation or not.
Let’s get real here. Nothing will ever be resolved in Iraq until the oil wealth is distributed equally – and we all know that will NEVER happen. After all, GWB and Dick Cheney have to have their shares first and I doubt there will be any left over for the sake of peace.
Just for the Hell of it, what are you going to do on a two month vacation in Iraq? Go the the beach? Hit the casinos? Take a car trip to the mountains?
If our boys and girls are there, those bastards should be working also – or bring them home.
It’s passed time to bring them home.
George W Bush needs to go to Iraq rally the troops and stay there untill this thing is done.
How bout we just run their whole country for them Cliff?
We’re done there.
There is very little the legislative branch of govenment can do to bring order in a country. the primary problem in Iraq is the violence and only the executive branch can do anything about it.
Stopping isolated violent groups or individuals takes time and often involves luck. The Iraqi army is inproving and recently captured a large weapons cache, but we shouldn’t expect miracles.
Our potential success depends in part on the quality of our own generals and their ability to develop the best tactics for dealing with the situation. Hopefully, the our new general will be more effective than our former general.
It has only been four years, Jalexson, how much longer should we wait at the rate of $8 billion per month and 100 dead?
We were told by Bush that these were people longing for ‘freedom’ and democracy. Bush didn’t know that freedom and democracy meant to them that the majority would have control. Hence the purple thumbs and smiling faces.