Letters to the Editor
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What is their problem?
Mitch, try reading British newspapers which will explain the problem: the Iraqi Parliament gets so little done not just because of sectarian divisions but because they don't meet often enough.
Members are afraid of being shot, kidnapped or blown up, and so obtaining a quorum isn't easy. You'd think a Senator could at least have his staff inform him about this.
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No, Please,
Don't cut and run
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Sooo frustrating
We've been trying to get this fish to ride the bicycle we gave it and gee, it just doesn't want to cooperate. We're getting really frustrated and we're sending along a second, even bigger bicycle in hopes that the fish will get the frickin' message!
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"I don't know what their problem is..."
Let's see: we bombed the chicken soup out of the place, blew up water purification plants and sewage-treatment plants, sat on our hands when looters ransacked the country (except, of course, for guarding the oil ministry), moved troops into Saddam's old palaces in an unmistakable sign to the Iraqis that the new boss was now in charge, twiddled out thumbs while thousands died in barren hospitals, left the caches of artillery shells and other explosives unguarded, gave the rebuilding work to multinational corporations that didn't have a clue how to proceed but were politically well connected, and told several hundred thousand Iraqi soldiers "Ah, go do your own thing, gidadaheah!"
I mean, look at all we've done for them, Mitch. What IS their problem anyway?
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Mitch: Why do THEY have to vote for us to leave … before we leave?
Is there some reason why we can't just decide on our own to pull up stakes and head for home?
We already know "THEY" don't want us there.
And each succedding opinion poll makes clearer and clearer that WE don't want to be there.
So, why wait for their say so? Let's just LEAVE already.
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Okay, they've won
Mitch McConnell has decided to turn our foreign policy over to the Iraqis:
"I read just this week that a significant number of the Iraqi parliament want to vote to ask us to leave," he said. "I want to assure you, Wolf, if they vote to ask us to leave, we'll be glad to comply with their request."
Could Osama bin Laden have ever dreamed we would reach a point where senior government officials of the United States would EVER UTTER WORDS LIKE THESE? I imagine not. What this administration has wrought is an absolute disgrace.
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Mitch McConnell is frustrated?
Why then is he only thinking aloud with those thin half-smiling lips pressed tightly against a need to really speak aloud for common sense. These guys (GOP) are publicly standing behind a failed presidency and war policy that is killing and maiming hundreds a day. Get some balls Mitch. Before it's too late, do the right thing for this country and the world and back an impeachment of this mad man who is dragging you and your ilk to the bottom with him.
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Then blame the Iraqi government and bail
Here is how to end the war so we win. First, get Iran involved in protecting the Shiites. What? Crazy you say? No. The Saudis fear Iran more than Allah, and pay numerous Sunni Jihadist to sabotage Shia movements all across the middle east. Use our frustration to divest ourselves from the Shia dominated Iraqi government. Next, leave. Let the Shia take their revenge on the Sunni, but make sure Iran's name gets tied to it. Declare this a tragedy, then use it as a justification to sell more tanks to Saudi Arabia. Secretly funnel more money into Saudi Jihadist fronts that want revenge on the hated Shia, as we are already doing.
What does this all accomplish? Destabilizing Muslim unity. It is Bin Laden's dream to use us as a shared enemy to unite the fragmented Muslim world. When we invaded Iraq, we handed that to him on a silver platter. We cannot allow this to continue. A genocide in Iraq that has Farsi letters all over it could pull a strategic victory from the jaws of defeat.
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McConnell
Needs to shut his pie hole.
He's emboldening Bush and the neocons.
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The lone gunman theory of dictatorship needs to be put to death forever
I don't know what their problem is, but this country has made an enormous investment in giving the Iraqis a chance to have a normal government after all of these years of Saddam Hussein and his atrocities.
A society doesn't end up a dictatorship by accident. Here is how it really works: people turn each other in. People cooperate. People collaborate. People turn a blind eye to the suffering of their neighbors.
Or people get jealous of their neighbors, suspicious of their neighbors, and use the secret police to settle their grievances.
A repressive society is a collective evil. People have to buy into it, they have to be willing to be governed by fear, if a dictatorship is really going to work.
His atrocities are their atrocities. Everyone ends up sharing in the guilt. And everyone ends up both betrayed and betraying.
That's one reason why they can't put together a normal government, and just want to blow each other up.
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There is no Iraqi Government
Just a few agencies run by sectarian death squads and otherwise no centralized power over anything.
I wish the press would just come out and stop this fiction that there is an Iraq government capable of doing anything.
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Mitch "Death Tax" McConnell's frustrated? Get in line.
McConnell should stick to his efforts to wean the rich from having to pay estate taxes, versus contemplating the mess we've made in Iraq. So much to go on in that whining of his...
The de-Baathification effort, not passed ... I don't know what their problem is, but this country has made an enormous investment in giving the Iraqis a chance to have a normal government after all of these years of Saddam Hussein and his atrocities.
Is the de-Baathification effort he's referring to more like the re-Baathification effort -- that is, somehow flip-flopping on Bremer's idiotic de-Baathification scheme that created the Sunni insurgency to begin with? Or are we talking some de-de-Baathification?
"[W]hat their problem is?" Wow, Noam Chomsky's probably chuckling over that one, since he's often invoked how we always blame the victims of our foreign policy for it not working, versus the policy itself -- damn those Iraqis for not being shocked and awed enough by our amazing, selfless benevolence. Our lone innovation in the art of empire (and our tragic folly as a nation) is our desire to be loved -- we want to be the popular empire!
And speaking of our foreign policy, what exactly is a "normal government" in Third World terms? You mean a functioning dictatorship? A monarchy? Our favored kind of "normal governments" with regard to our allies in the Third World have rotten human rights records, in case anybody's paying attention. Death squad democracies, you know?
And finally, maybe there'd have been no Saddam Hussein to overthrow if we hadn't supported his regime back when it was politically expedient to do so in the 1980s, eh?
So, Mitch's frustrated because our foreign policy of sponsoring Third World dictatorships in strategic regions at the expense of the will of those countries' populations (in the name of "freedom and democracy" of course) isn't working in Iraq? That the Iraqi people don't want us there? Wow. Who knew a representative dictatorship wouldn't work?
And it took him this long to be frustrated about it? Must be an election bid looming in his future.