"Let the Iraqis Decide" Oh yeah...
If embattled Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki wonders why his poll numbers are reaching the depths of his benefactor, President Bush, the answer is simple: both have the same Republican PR firm. Though it’s obvious Barbour, Griffiths and Rogers is having more success knocking Maliki down than propping Bush up.
Hardly a day goes by without the White House “Decider” pointing a finger at the Maliki’s leadership as the reason the surge isn’t surging. But he insists Maliki still has his full support. “If any change is made, it will be made by the Iraqis—it’s their democracy.”
There was a time when American presidents sent in covert CIA agents to undermine a foreign government we didn’t like. But what should we do when the government we put in place isn’t working out? Give their elected leader a taste of American-style hardball politics.
Maliki should be flattered to know that Hayley Barbour’s well-connected Republican PR firm is treating him just like it would any other party pol who falls into disfavor with the Bush White House. BG&R is being paid $300,000 to trash Maliki while writing op-eds and lobbying Congress on behalf of his political rival Ayad Allawi.
Maliki shouldn’t take it personally. There is just a nagging feeling at the White House that the surge won’t surge without new leadership in Baghdad. Bush will never admit he was wrong in Iraq, but will concede the Iraqi parliament made a bad choice in Maliki.
Other bad stuff is happening as we wait for the September Surge report. Newsweek magazine documents corruption in Iraq that is “out of control”. Contractors have defrauded American taxpayers of billions of dollars but the Bush Administration declines to take part in a lawsuit go get the money back. Little wonder that Bush appointees at the Veterans Administration are forced to cut back on funds needed by our military hospitals.
A new book Blackwater exposes the existence of a sinister mercenary force contracted to work for the U.S. not only in Iraq but on the streets of New Orleans. According to Joe Honick of GMA International, “these auxiliary armies are doing things our military would go to jail for.”
It is really getting ugly. The Iraqi parliament vacations while U.S. troops remain embroiled in a civil war. GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s five healthy, prosperous military-age sons stay out of harm’s way while their father campaigns in support of a war others must fight. First Daughter Jenna announces her engagement as a mother in northern Virginia mourns the death in Iraq of her daughter, an Army nurse. The anguished mother summed it up eloquently when she told the Washington Post: “I’m preparing for a funeral, he’s preparing for a wedding.”
Hardly a day goes by without the White House “Decider” pointing a finger at the Maliki’s leadership as the reason the surge isn’t surging. But he insists Maliki still has his full support. “If any change is made, it will be made by the Iraqis—it’s their democracy.”
There was a time when American presidents sent in covert CIA agents to undermine a foreign government we didn’t like. But what should we do when the government we put in place isn’t working out? Give their elected leader a taste of American-style hardball politics.
Maliki should be flattered to know that Hayley Barbour’s well-connected Republican PR firm is treating him just like it would any other party pol who falls into disfavor with the Bush White House. BG&R is being paid $300,000 to trash Maliki while writing op-eds and lobbying Congress on behalf of his political rival Ayad Allawi.
Maliki shouldn’t take it personally. There is just a nagging feeling at the White House that the surge won’t surge without new leadership in Baghdad. Bush will never admit he was wrong in Iraq, but will concede the Iraqi parliament made a bad choice in Maliki.
Other bad stuff is happening as we wait for the September Surge report. Newsweek magazine documents corruption in Iraq that is “out of control”. Contractors have defrauded American taxpayers of billions of dollars but the Bush Administration declines to take part in a lawsuit go get the money back. Little wonder that Bush appointees at the Veterans Administration are forced to cut back on funds needed by our military hospitals.
A new book Blackwater exposes the existence of a sinister mercenary force contracted to work for the U.S. not only in Iraq but on the streets of New Orleans. According to Joe Honick of GMA International, “these auxiliary armies are doing things our military would go to jail for.”
It is really getting ugly. The Iraqi parliament vacations while U.S. troops remain embroiled in a civil war. GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s five healthy, prosperous military-age sons stay out of harm’s way while their father campaigns in support of a war others must fight. First Daughter Jenna announces her engagement as a mother in northern Virginia mourns the death in Iraq of her daughter, an Army nurse. The anguished mother summed it up eloquently when she told the Washington Post: “I’m preparing for a funeral, he’s preparing for a wedding.”
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