Posted on 12/03/2006 9:53:17 PM PST by La Enchiladita
Niters,KK,,,Sleep Warm...;0)
It is 8:20 a.m. in Beirut.
It's 9:50 a.m. in Teheran.
Go poke it with a stick...;0)
You're welcome!
Top of the news ...
Bush to meet with top Iraqi Shiite leader
By Greg Gordon and John Walcott
McClatchy Newspapers
(MCT)
WASHINGTON - President Bush will hold an Oval Office meeting with a key Iraqi Shiite leader Monday amid a scramble to bolster the strife-torn nation's unity government before it collapses in civil war.
The meeting with Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution, is considered an effort to boost support for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, with whom Bush met in Jordan last Thursday. Al-Hakim is a leading opponent of anti-U.S. Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who controls the most powerful bloc in Iraq's ruling coalition.
The administration hopes that by urging Hakim and other al-Sadr rivals to support Maliki more forcefully, they can reign in the growing radical influence of al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army militia, two senior administration officials said Sunday.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/16157012.htm
There you are,,,I thought you went in the lake,!...;0)
(I'll watch:)
(hold mu beer)...;0)
You flag-waver, you!!!
;^)
It was nice knowin' ya!!
Seems like tradin' one moola for another,,,,,,
Shuck-n-jive...
'Hakim is the leader of the United Iraqi Alliance, which holds 128 seats in the Iraqi Parliament. Bush plans to meet next month with Iraq's Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, a leader of Iraq's Sunni Muslims who hold 55 seats.
Bush "looks forward to an exchange of views and a discussion of important issues facing Iraq today,'' National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said.'
Nobody Left Behind...............
Sadly,that post is a true statement,,,
The last sentence says it all...
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