Wait and see: Obama is going to declare victory in Iraq, and say we need to withdraw now.
The media will give him credit for winning the war, and the far left will give him a hero’s welcome when he gets back from the region.
Surreal? Yeah. But we’re talking about the loony left and their desire to get power.
This is Maliki taking foolish advantage of a political situation, ingrateful idiot.
I wonder who is pulling Maliki’s strings now? Can you say “IMANUTJOB”??
Ahhhhh, so Obama has agreed to the same “time horizon” as President Bush (of COURSE with the possibility of *slight* changes)?
Typical political rhetoric. It all depends on what the meaning of the word "slight" is. I suspect what he's really saying is the probability of major changes.
Given the fact that the AP misrepresented Maliki’s prior remarks on this issue and never actually corrected it (the BBC did), I will wait until I have a source that is more credible.
This Iraq venture can all fall apart within a short time, simply because of the nature of the Iraqis and their monumental honor and face saving culture. I always think back to opinions illustrated is polls of the Iraqi people and interviews of individuals soon after Baghdad fell in 2003. They showed, over and over:
1. Iraqis were glad Sadddam was gone.
2. It was humiliating that Americans had to do it.
3. They thought American troops should leave ASAP.
Within that sort of thinking is room for the Iraqis to create, themselves, all sorts of disastrous outcomes for their country once American influence and control is removed.
If preserving some of their honor is more important than working with the Americans until they have firm control of their own security, then anything can happen after we leave and the US sacrifice will have been wasted.
And Obama is the perfect stooge to facilitate a disastrous outcome. It’s a perfect set-up for Al Qaeda and other terrorists to pull back some and regroup until the Americans depart.
The Iraqi nation is an ungrateful pile of dog sh!t. Foreign contracts, zero help at the pump, and now this. We should have flattened the whole damned place.
Most of us only needed one 9/11 to understand the situation.
Can you give us some light on this?
You just know Maliki was asked leading questions and that those remarks were taken out of context.
I'm not defending Maliki; I just know how the scumbag media works.
Let’s just go ahead and pull out now. The first ones to likely die will be the leaders like this idiot. Let them have a civil war. Let them die. Screw them.
Maliki did not say this. It was a mistranslation and the filthy commies have continued to lie about it.
Believe it or not you can find it on the BBC.
Frankly, I hope we can pull our troops within 16 months, at least out of the actual operations.
Obama wanted to pull troops 16 months from two YEARS ago, meaning he wanted them all out by March of 2008.
Now he’s only saying 16 months because he thinks that shows a measured pace of withdrawal (and it’s probably about as fast as we could reasonably pull the troops out and still keep the remaining ones safe).
At SOME point, Obama will be “right” about 16 months. It’s like waking up every morning and saying someone is going to die today. Eventually you will be right, but it doesn’t mean you have a clue.
In 1950, when the unstable and militarily weak S. Korea was invaded and occupied by Communist N. Korea, Truman sent our military back to S. Korea to free it.
Truman said he was merely sending our men to fight a "police action" against "bandits," but, in reality, 30,000 Americans died in Korea in the remaining 30 months of Truman's presidency.
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If this is a true quote, then I suspect most highly that Marxist Obama's operatives got to him.
The timing is especially "convenient", what with Marxist Obama's visit.
Could there be a few million $s and a villa in the south of France (the land of ingrates) for Mister Maliki?
This is a question for Marxsist Obama.
Here’s the Der Spiegel article/interview with Maliki. Sure enough on the second page Maliki throws Bush under the bus. SOB!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,566852,00.html