Posted on 08/22/2007 4:34:09 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Clinton urges ouster of Iraq's al-Maliki
By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer 28 minutes ago
Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday the Iraqi Parliament should replace embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki with a "less divisive and more unifying figure" to reconcile political and religious factions.
Clinton, the 2008 Democratic presidential front-runner, made her comments the same day President Bush reaffirmed his support for al-Maliki before a veterans' convention in Kansas City, Mo.
In a statement released by her Senate office, Clinton echoed a call by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin for Iraq's Parliament to oust al-Maliki in favor of a leader who could restore order to Iraq's unity government.
"During his trip to Iraq last week, Senator Levin ... confirmed that the Iraqi government is nonfunctional and cannot produce a political settlement because it is too beholden to religious and sectarian leaders," Clinton said. "I share Senator Levin's hope that the Iraqi Parliament will replace Prime Minister Maliki with a less divisive and more unifying figure when it returns in a few weeks."
Clinton voted in 2002 to authorize military action in Iraq and has since become a staunch critic of the conflict. She traveled to Iraq just before beginning her presidential campaign in January and expressed reservations about al-Maliki's leadership upon her return.
In a speech before the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention, Bush reiterated support for al-Maliki a day after expressing frustration with the Iraqi leader's inability to bridge political divisions in his country.
"I support him," Bush said. "It's not up to the politicians in Washington, D.C., to say whether he will remain in his position. It is up to the Iraqi people who now live in a democracy and not a dictatorship."
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Bill, can’t you find some willing young thing to tickle your fancy? Why don’t you just go home and pleasure the Mrs. for the first time in the last couple of decades.
Now she’s making Obama look pretty competent after all.
It’s a parliamentary system.The voters pick the legislators and the legislators pick the Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister wasn’t elected by the people.
Not that I agree with her, but she’s not callingfor overturning the election.
But, her candidate is holed up in a cave in Pakistan.
Not that different from our system. Voters pick the Electors, and the Electors pick the President.
Ultimately, it doesn't matter who does the actual voting - PIAPS wants to overrule them.
Dear Senator Flapgum, I would urge you to keep in mind the saying, “Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it!”.
Remember a man named Diem?
Just a pawn to be moved here and there at the whim of political hubris, until he was assassinated.
It rather humbled the Kennedys, they hadn’t realized the stakes, they had to pay their own price later.
You are certainly no better than them, in fact one could
positively say you come no where near them.
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Good post
You said what I would not have said as well as you have
JFK was big on “getting rid” of enemies
So was Bobby Kennedy
And now Teddy Kennedy is so scared he kisses up to every enemy of America
Bump devolve!
Naw she can’t. Devil just called said he doesn’t want her back.
Arrogance: Thy Name is Hillary
Who the hell is she to call for his ouster. This seems to be a new strategy by the Dems. This is the same garbage Carl Levin has spewed.
No politcal progress in Iraq!
See! The surge isn't working!
so now they have to undermine political progress in Iraq.
These people are truly pathetic and despicable. They'd have no problem with thousands of Iraqi civilians and US troops being slaughtered, so long as Bush loses.
Sounds good to me.
I’m aware of their disdain for success and how they loath the military, but calling for the ouster of allied world leaders? This seems to be a new U.S. position I am unaware of?
Separation of Powers! Somebody remind Hitlery. So she now opposes regime change for Saddam but supports it for the elected maliki?
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