US Doesn't Like Outcome of Iraq Election So Tries to block the New Government

Glynch,

do you have a link or something that highlights this? If so, it would definitely be pretty hypocritical; it counters everything the administration said about bringing 'democracy' to Iraq.

Democracy is tricky in that region, if we're serious about it then we must deal with the fact that we will have to deal with people we don't like or see eye-to-eye with. In most of those countries, the primary opposition are the Islamists, because they're the only ones organized enough and trusted enough by the masses, given the utter failure of the secular Arab regimes over the past half-century or so to produce anything worthwhile for their people.

IMO, I think the Administration is having doubts about the whole 'Middle East Initiative' project, I think they're going to be more picky moving forward.

 

IMO, the Bush Administration has started World War III, and will leave it to the next administration to clean it up.

 

You're not the only one --

Founder Of Delta Force: "Bush May Well Have Started The Third World War"...

Eric Haney, a retired command sergeant major of the U.S. Army, was a founding member of Delta Force, the military's elite covert counter-terrorist unit.

We recently spoke to Haney, an amiable, soft-spoken Southern gentleman, on the set of "The Unit."

Q: What's your assessment of the war in Iraq?

A: Utter debacle. But it had to be from the very first. The reasons were wrong. The reasons of this administration for taking this nation to war were not what they stated. (Army Gen.) Tommy Franks was brow-beaten and ... pursued warfare that he knew strategically was wrong in the long term.

That's why he retired immediately afterward. His own staff could tell him what was going to happen afterward.

We have fomented civil war in Iraq. We have probably fomented internecine war in the Muslim world between the Shias and the Sunnis, and I think Bush may well have started the third world war, all for their own personal policies.

http://www.dailynews.com/entertainment/ci_3641046

 

LINK? He don-need no stinkin' badges......er, links.

 

that's because their barbarians with clubs and rocks.

as the entire country is

 

we hate them for their freedom.

 

glynch misspelled "shiites"... and the forum programming caught it...

 

Freudian slip. Now we know what Glynch really thinks about them.

 

holy cow...you are the official one?

I hope you are getting paid VERY WELL!

 

they're burning a hole in bush's arse

 

OK, so I added the 'official' part myself...

 

well

I suppose you are a better holy democracy war advocator than the current official one.

At least you can make a point(for the record: I mainly disagree with your points...but that isnt for this thread)

Hannity just sounds like a raving lunatic

 

Have any job openings? I could be the vice-official...

 

Well anyway, back to the thread...

Seems glynch, once again, is right...

Shiites Say U.S. Is Pressuring Iraqi Leader to Step Aside
By EDWARD WONG
Published: March 28, 2006

BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 28 — Senior Shiite politicians said today that the American ambassador has told Shiite officials to inform the Iraqi prime minister that President Bush does not want him to remain the country's leader in the next government.

It is the first time the Americans have directly intervened in the furious debate over the country's top job, the politicians said, and it is inflaming tensions between the Americans and some Shiite leaders.

The ambassador, Zalmay Khalilzad, told the head of the main Shiite political bloc at a meeting last Saturday to pass a "personal message from President Bush" on to the prime minister, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, who the Shiites insist should stay in his post for four more years, said Redha Jowad Taki, a Shiite politician and member of Parliament who was at the meeting.

Ambassador Khalilzad said that President Bush "doesn't want, doesn't support, doesn't accept" Mr. Jaafari to be the next prime minister, according to Mr. Taki, a senior aide to Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the head of the Shiite bloc.

It was the first "clear and direct message" from the Americans on the issue of the candidate for prime minister, Mr. Taki said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/28/international/middleeast/28cnd-iraq.html

 

NYT took Bush's hint and is now publishing good nonviolent stories out of Iraq.

 

The Downing Street Memo II may or may not have been an indication about whether democracy was really important when considering why to go to war. But this speaks very loudly that democracy is not chief among the concerns of President Bush, and this administration in regards to Iraq.

What a shame.

 

Wow! How is that 'democratic'? Yah well, I guess it's about time the Shi'as join the insurgency...

 

"....but only Major McCoy and Colonel Alexander can STOP IT!!!"