Posted on 11/29/2006 10:36:19 AM PST by STARWISE
President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will be putting off their meeting by one day, the White House said Wednesday.
The delay comes after the high-stakes summit was marred by public disclosure of U.S. doubts about al-Maliki's capacity to control sectarian violence and a walkout of Iraq's coalition government by 30 parliamentarians loyal to radical anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
Five Cabinet ministers and 30 lawmakers suspended their participation in Parliament saying their action was necessary because the meeting in Jordan constituted a "provocation to the feelings of the Iraqi people and a violation of their constitutional rights." Their statement did not explain that claim.
"The reality on the streets of Baghdad suggests Maliki is either ignorant of what is going on, misrepresenting his intentions, or that his capabilities are not yet sufficient to turn his good intentions into action," the Times quoted the memo as saying.
Al-Maliki and Bush are meeting in Amman, the Jordanian capital, Wednesday and Thursday in a summit aimed at halting Iraq's escalating sectarian violence and paving the way for a reduction of American troops.
"We are sticking to our position. ... The boycott is still valid," Falih Hassan, a Sadrist legislator, said in an interview with The Associated Press. "Bush is a criminal who killed a lot of Iraqis and we do not want him to interfere in Iraq's affairs. The Iraqi government should negotiate with the U.N. Security Council, not with the leader of the country that is occupying Iraq."
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The Security Council responded to a request from al-Maliki, who said a top government priority is to assume full responsibility for security and stability throughout Iraq but that it needs more time.
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Put me on the realist ping list, too!!
Will the Iraqi government hold itself together? Does the president trust Maliki to stave off the dreaded outcome of the current levels of violence?
Is this a sign of the deterioration of the Sadr influence?
Just wait .... in the next 2 yrs., I think you're gonna see the Rats on a purposeful path of turning on Israel, and the media will happily chime in. God knows what the repercussions will eventually be, and God help us.
Okay, I've just done a little research. But first, I'd like to ask you a question.
Were you consistently critiqueing U.S. involvement in Iraq BEFORE the November 7 election, or have you just started in this vein SINCE the election? I had to go back to June to find a post where you commented on Iraq, and you were "thankful" that Zarqawi was killed and "impressed" with the new Iraqi PM.
Otherwise, your posts are in the vein of being a Tancredo-ite "conservative" who believes that he, and not George W. Bush, should be leading the nation. Therefore, what is Tom Tancredo's position on the U.S. presence in Iraq?
I used the numbers from here -
http://icasualties.org/oif/hnh.aspx
Change the counter to US only. It won't copy that way.
They are pretty close to yours, except that your site does not seperate hostile and non-hostile deaths. I gave the averages for hostile and non-hostile.
Will the democrats abandon Israel if (G-d forbid) the elect a president in '08?
Will they allow the Palis to create a state, followed by a Pali civil war?
Will the Jewish people be discriminated against by the Left and their European friends?
There was no mention of a "trend" in the post. This is what I responded to.
We cannot politically sustain two more years of 80-100 US KIA per month, on an open ended mission
There is NO trend of 80-100 KIA per month.
Done. It will be low volume. Please check with some of the others that are copied, if you are interested in M.E. affairs and other NFL and general items. If you are interested in SouthPark or other inane and mundane items with humor, this can be accomodated as well =8o})
Praying it's not true, but gut is telling me there is a Rat plan afoot that's despicable, and you know Israel will not suffer fools or take snubs lying down and will righteously defend herself.
Have you seen the rise in European anti-semitism the past two years?
Many things are converging, can they be stopped?
Hillary passes it on to Bill. Bill passes it on to who ever will do the most damage. That way, there's no trail, because who's going to tell? A husband can't be called to testify against his wife. An investigation would go no where.
STARWISE wrote:
Hint: Install BIG picture view
I suggest you review the economic, political and military ramifications of Iranian nuclear weapons.
If the wheels come off in Iraq tomorrow, or in 2008, we can still rebuild it up until 19 years later, 20, give or take, being the magic number before AQ got big enough for most here to worry about.
One the genie's out of the bottle in Iran, there's precisely NO putting it back. You won't like what comes of it, and I'm not stocked up well enough to remediate the results of your myopic vision.
BTW, Ayman retired, and Sayed's back in Lavizan.
What precisely do you think Iran's next move will be if Iraq's sovereignty and borders vanish? The BIG picture is the WHOLE magilla. Just what did you choose to infer from my BIG picture statement? Maybe you should've just asked me what I meant instead of assuming.
Right on! I'd like to see anyone else handle the cards he was dealt do it with perfection.
I haven't a clue.
Sadr has a lot more power now than he did three years ago when he should have been dealt with.
Iraq has a democracy. It is just a very violent one.
And you probably listen to NPR.
You didn't answer the question about Tancredo's position.
Oh,yeah, you just signed up and you're the one to do the job. Riiiight......
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