The Outlook For Iraq

   Middle East historian David Fromkin sees Iraq as breaking apart.Saad al-Hadithi from Baghdad University said,"Bleak."

By CHARLES J. HANLEY, AP Special Correspondent

  "At the moment," said the British historian Niall Ferguson,"a happy ending has a 1-in-100 look about it."      The Article

In interviews with The Associated Press, few experts see much chance that President Bush's plan to add 21,500 troops to the U.S. force in Baghdad and western Iraq will suppress either the anti-U.S. insurgency or the bloody underground warfare between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, or induce a political settlement among the Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish factions.     

       Let's get this right, okay? The experts say that Bush's scheme has no chance. The generals that Bush said he listens to said this will not work.So what does he do? He fires them and gets a few brown-nosers to go along with him. The American public tells him that they do not like his plans thus far and they most certainly do not care for his new 'stay the course'.

   This man claims to listen to a higher voice. That must be someone taller than he is because it sure isn't God. John Hagee maybe, or Pat Robertson?

   The United States Military is fucked in Iraq because of this butt-wipe and when he attacks Iran they will be even more screwed!

 

  

 

   

Maliki told Bush To Withdraw From Baghdad

By Michael Abramowitz and Peter Baker

Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, January 21, 2007

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had a surprise for President Bush when they sat down with their aides in the Four Seasons Hotel in Amman, Jordan. Firing up a PowerPoint presentation, Maliki and his national security adviser proposed that U.S. troops withdraw to the outskirts of Baghdad and let Iraqis take over security in the strife-torn capital. Maliki said he did not want any more U.S. troops at all, just more authority.

The president listened intently to the unexpected proposal at their Nov. 30 meeting, according to accounts from several administration officials. Bush seemed impressed that Maliki had taken the initiative, but it did not take him long to reject the idea.    Entire Article

   As is usual, the 'decider/divider' ignored the Iraqi Prime Minister as he does with everyone else! What happened to 'if they ask us to leave then we will'?

   Must be hard to overcome your greed for oil and all of the cash that it brings in. Bush doesn't want someone else to look smarter than he is but he fails to understand that even a snail on drugs can beat him at the I.Q. table.

 

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