This [deleted barnyard epithet] burns me up:
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House on Friday appeared resigned to the fact that the Iraqi parliament is going to take August off, even though it has just eight weeks to show progress on military, political and economic benchmarks prescribed by the United States."My understanding is at this juncture they're going to take August off, but, you know, they may change their minds," White House press secretary Tony Snow said.
"You know, it's 130 degrees in Baghdad in August," he said, sympathetically.
Snow was reminded that U.S. troops will be continuing to fight throughout August in the heat.
Hey, how about giving US troops the month of August off? Seriously, somebody tell me again why our soldiers are fighting and dying for this no-count government? (The Iraqi one, I mean). The surge is supposed to be there to give the Iraqi government time to work out its problems. But these jokers are going on vacation! Disgusting.
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". . .we're staying because we've so destabilized the country that if we leave, the ensuing power vacuum would throw the middle east into chaos."
Sounds good - may even be true. But it is NOT the reason. Check the stock price of Shell, CVX, BP, COP, Exxon. THAT's why we are staying - and will stay.
Yep.
But thank goodness George Bush is in charge instead of some French speaking smartypants.
IIRC, the August vacation doesn't make much difference anyway. I understand the parliament has a hard time coming up with a quorum on days it is up and running.
Kim M
"We're not staying in Iraq to help Iraqis now, we're staying because we've so destabilized the country that if we leave, the ensuing power vacuum would throw the middle east into chaos."
If we stay, it will be chaos. If we go, tommorrow or a decade or 7 from now, it will be chaos. Does anything matter more now than simply seeing no more Americans die?
The Onion had a piece a few months back about such ME chaos. And it basically was exactly that-chaos, and blah, blah, blah. same stuff, different day, over and over. Buy the oil if we must, but let's go home.
>Seriously, somebody tell me again why our soldiers are fighting and dying for this no-count government?
Because of Iraq's oil and strategic location in the Middle East.
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