Posted on 08/26/2007 8:17:35 AM PDT by Kaslin
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki hit back on Sunday at Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Hillary Clinton and other U.S. critics who have called for him to be replaced, telling them "to come to their senses."
Maliki is under mounting pressure from officials in Washington to show political progress towards reconciling his majority Shi'ite Muslim sect and minority Sunni Arabs. U.S. officials are frustrated by the negligible progress so far.
Clinton and fellow Democratic Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, have called for Maliki to be voted out because of his failure to find a political solution to Iraq's bitter sectarian violence.
"There are American officials who consider Iraq as if it were one of their villages, for example Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin," Maliki told a news conference.
"This is severe interference in our domestic affairs. Carl Levin and Hillary Clinton are from the Democratic Party and they must demonstrate democracy.
"I ask them to come back to their senses and to talk in a respectful way about Iraq."
Democrats in Congress have criticized President George W. Bush's Iraq policy and called for U.S. troops to begin pulling out as soon as possible.
Bush offered renewed support for Maliki last week but acknowledged that many were frustrated by the lack of political progress towards national reconciliation.
Good riposte. BTTT.
Oh oh cap’n Kirk is up! Tell us cap’n why did we go to war against those innocent Germans and Italians they were no where near Pearl Harbor.
If our Democrat friends have noticed the floor tilting a bit, that's the scales of history beginning to measure out their just due for what they pulled in Vietnam.
Which, of course, is exactly what they intend to do to the Iraqis that we just liberated from Saddam, only this time the brighter Democrats have begun to realize......they could begin to get a reputation for this stuff!
And not a very savory one. Well, they're a couple of wars behind, but at last it's beginning to dawn on a few of them: When it gets down to the nut-cutting, you'd better be willing to stand up and stay standing until it's over.
Drive By Media....They just spew out claims and attacks without backing and "drive" on, often to state the same thing over an over using each other as references. I think Rush started using the expression.
If Maliki’s intention is to introduce a full Shiite Islamic fundamentalist repressive government, Iraqi democracy and civil rights are thrown out the window.
if we were allowed to fight this war the way war is supposed to be fought, we would be in a much more enviable position right now.
thank you very much ACLU and the democrats at large...
what-EVER. see post #46.
“Yeah, but you have to admit, Malikis forging ties with Iran could represent a huge step backwards.”
I’m unsure of his complete intentions. Look, the guy is in a tough spot, and the democrats aren’t helping. Perhaps, his negotiations with Iran are his plan B if we abandon him.
Irregardless of what his motives are, he must deal with Iran one way or another simply because of the geography. With Iraqi troops just beginning to pull their own weight, now is not the time for him to adopt a hard line with the Iranians.
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