"You know, they build the Buick LaCrosse in Iraq"
"Prime Minister Maliki was the first one in his family to go to college".
"Stand up Zarqawi."
"My Secret Service nickname is 'Impeachment Insurance'."
Posted on 07/03/2009 9:38:49 PM PDT by pissant
Reporting from Baghdad -- Vice President Joe Biden's mission to promote national reconciliation in Iraq was rebuffed Friday by Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, who told him that the issue was a domestic Iraqi affair and that U.S involvement wouldn't be welcome.
Biden was beginning a two-day visit to Iraq after President Obama appointed him this week as his special representative on dealings with the Persian Gulf nation. His assignment, the White House said, is to work with Iraqis "toward overcoming their political differences and achieving the type of reconciliation that we all understand has yet to fully take place."
But Biden's meeting with Maliki was a reminder that although the U.S. maintains about 130,000 troops in Iraq, its influence is waning rapidly now that the clock is ticking on the timetable for the departure of all American combat troops next year.
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I misread the title and thought this was a thread about gays.;>)
I can’t wait to see the Putin Obama meeting.
What gifts could these two exchange?
More popcorn!
Perhaps he can unify Iraq like he has unified America?? They have more freedom and cooperation than we do.
Pray for America and Iraq
Obama and plugs are MEDDLING in Iraq. Meddling is a big no no... oh that’s only true for helping Iranian protestors.
Or for trying to re-install would be marxist dictators in free countries.
God this administration is a bunch of stupid SOBs.
I’m sure that Maliki has his reasons. But it must have felt really good to tell Biden to get stuffed. Biden was the guy that recommended that Iraq be divided into 3 parts, something that Maliki surely remembers. Iraq as we now know it wouldn’t exist if we had followed Biden’s advice.
"You know, they build the Buick LaCrosse in Iraq"
"Prime Minister Maliki was the first one in his family to go to college".
"Stand up Zarqawi."
"My Secret Service nickname is 'Impeachment Insurance'."
Is zero taking another swing at hillary?
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