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2007-08-23 Home Front: Politix
Clinton calls to replace Iraqi prime minister
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Posted by Fred 2007-08-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top
 File under: Iraqi Insurgency 

#1 I question the timing.

It is intresting that Maliki has been lately rather succesful in bringing different segments together. Maybe that's the problem--an end of quagmire in sight. For Dhimmicrats, that is rather a hot potato.
Posted by twobyfour 2007-08-23 00:13||   2007-08-23 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Overt US comments on Iraqi leadership - stupid. US-set "benchmarks" for Iraqi govt. to meet - stupid. Whole concept of "forcing" Iraqis to magically settle the whole mess in a timeframe never seen in all of human history for such things - incredibly stupid. Whole concept that legislative acts in B'dad will have one iota of impact on enemies of order in Iraq, who commit their mayhem for myriad bad reasons - beyond incredibly stupid.
Posted by Verlaine 2007-08-23 01:38||   2007-08-23 01:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Herself should have continued to allow Obama to make the blunderbuss foreign policy statements.
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2007-08-23 01:40||   2007-08-23 01:40|| Front Page Top

#4 President Bush gave a very interesting speech on the subject at the VFW national convention yesterday. link
Posted by trailing wife 2007-08-23 05:24||   2007-08-23 05:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Her Thighness has another candidate in mind to replace Maliki.

Posted by doc 2007-08-23 06:56||   2007-08-23 06:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Whole concept of "forcing" Iraqis to magically settle the whole mess in a timeframe never seen in all of human history for such things - incredibly stupid.

And deeply uninformed about Arab and Kurd cultures.
Posted by lotp 2007-08-23 07:40||   2007-08-23 07:40|| Front Page Top

#7 By which I mean, how things get done there.
Posted by lotp 2007-08-23 07:41||   2007-08-23 07:41|| Front Page Top

#8 So, if they tell the Shrillary to take a hike, they really aren't puppets of the United States/Bushitler/Rove?
Posted by Ptah">Ptah  2007-08-23 08:40|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]  2007-08-23 08:40|| Front Page Top

#9 The arrogance and hypocrisy of this statement is staggering. Breath-taking. So now American Presidents are meant to remove foreign leaders by fiat but only provided the suggestion is a bone thrown to the mouth-breathers of the Democratic party funding base. Arguably stupider than Obama's land invasion of Pakistan and making a great deal less sense.
Posted by Excalibur 2007-08-23 09:04||   2007-08-23 09:04|| Front Page Top

#10 The [sheer] arrogance and hypocrisy of this statement is staggering.

I expect from Dhimmicrats nothing less. Which is actually a sad state of affairs, thinking of it. I am probably growing too cynical.
Posted by twobyfour 2007-08-23 09:25||   2007-08-23 09:25|| Front Page Top

#11 Well, the Dems. can't criticize the surge anymore so they have to make noise about political front in Iraq.

If they get what they want (Maliki stepping down), does that bring them on board for a while or shut them up for a few seconds?
Posted by Danking70 2007-08-23 11:10||   2007-08-23 11:10|| Front Page Top

#12 The Dummycritter Party has gone out of its way to prove they have no clue how to conduct foreign policy. Between Hitlery's stupid statement that "the US should replace Iraqi Prime Minister" (we called for democratic elections, now we want to renege?), to Artless Airhea Obama calling for a ground invasion of Pakistan (why telegraph our moves in advance?) to ending the "blockade" of Cuba, the donkey party has proven to the American people what most only suspected - they're clueless. They're not much better on domestic policy - raising taxes, reinstating the draft, amnesty to illegal aliens, etc. The whole group should be airlifted to Darfur, dropped from 25,000 feet without parachutes, with spork and cooking instructions attached. That way they can at least contribute to the "health and well-being" of the region.
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2007-08-23 13:39|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2007-08-23 13:39|| Front Page Top

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