How important is success in Iraq to you all?
Is this what we want??
McConnell "skeptical" Iraqi government will step up
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said he is "skeptical" about the Iraqi government but warned the recent U.S troop increase ordered by President Bush is the Iraqis' "last chance to step up and show they can be effective and can join with us to get this mission accomplished."
"This is it," he said.
McConnell's blunt assessment came the same day Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, announced that next Tuesday the Senate will take a key test vote on a resolution stating the troop increase is "against the national interest." The vote will determine if Reid can get support from at least 60 senators, the minimum needed to pass it.
Either way, Reid said the upcoming Senate debate will show that a bipartisan majority opposes the president's policy.
http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2007/01/mcconnell-skeptical-iraqi-government.html
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It is not what I want...
It disappoints me that Mitch McConnell felt the need to couch his approval for the plan....with his outward display of not only skepticism, but threatening the Iraqis....
I don't think that is the way to START a new offensive...I think that even what Mitch McConnell said, emboldens the enemy, because he is giving a sort of "deadline"...by saying this is their "last chance"..
FGS...why do these idiots HAVE to try to sound so accomodating...why can't they come out and say that they are with Gen. Petraeus all of the way, and nothing further needs to be said, or SHOULD be said????????