DISQUS

brian · 1 year ago

Dubya called him and told him to retract what he said. The boy blunder strikes again. Forget about making any progress in the world.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/us/politics/2...

jeffg166 · 1 year ago

They don't call it the big lie for nothing.

DonQ · 1 year ago

Here's the money quote from al Maliki: He “[w]ho wants to exit in a quicker way has a better assessment of the situation in Iraq.”

Wouldn't it be great to see that quoted and re-quoted in the major media? Sigh . . .

tlsintx · 1 year ago

heckuva legacy there, bushco.

extreme failure.

GrMtGirl · 1 year ago

Bet Bush threw a fit over this development . . . He's played around for 5 years accomplishing nothing and now someone truly wants to make a decision toward resolve.

Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago

If we allow these Arab leaders to run their own countries, before you know it, they'll start acting like the oil under their countries somehow belongs to them.

Busboy · 1 year ago

The surge pretty much wiped out Sadr'smilitants and most of AlQueda; so it's time to leave as long as the Iraqi's can defend the oilfields and pipelines. Iraq is in the process of letting contracts to refurbish the oilfields and plans to put another 1.5 million barrels a day on the world market. If they're successful, gasoline should be back to $2.50 per gallon by Christmas. Unless Iran happens, of course...

Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago

"In the Middle East and Southwest Asia, our overall objective is to remain the predominant outside power in the region and preserve U.S. and Western access to the region’s oil."

Paul Wolfowitz

dad · 1 year ago

sounds like a recipe/excuse for lower gas prices for incumbents by election day.

what a suprise

shanobama · 1 year ago

Uh, the cease fire ordered by Sadr, and the payment of bribes to the militias might have had more effect than the 'surge'.

Maliki knows this.

dad · 1 year ago

centcon

clytemnestra · 1 year ago

Der Spiegel can't be controlled by Bushco so they must be demonized and marginalized. Lesson here: always have audio tape back up.

Can't.wait.until.Bush.is.gone!

clytemnestra · 1 year ago

wait I thought the military didn't have enough translators, since they fired everyone who's gay

foolme1ns · 1 year ago

The statement issued by Al Maliki's secretary was distributed by the US Military. Was there some amount of intimidation used to force him to claim untruthfully that Maliki had been "misinterpreted"? How often does the sovereign Iraqi government issue statements through the US military forces?

OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago

As long as the US meddles in the internal affairs of the Iraqi govt, we actually could be there for 100 years. McBush is at least right about that.

And yes, I'd trust the tape itself, not the interpretation given by the Bush regime or those it blackmails.

jr · 1 year ago

"the audio is a George Soros conspiracy"-Fox

shanobama · 1 year ago

I love the title of the NYT article.
"Comment Stings Maliki as Obama Arrives in Baghdad"

Really?

I would think they have this wrong, someone was stung by this and it was not Maliki.

NYT=pussies.

gonzalez · 1 year ago

Where are the democrats and Obama on this. It is not an issue if the democrats and Obama does not make it an issue. They should learn from the republicans. Just imagine if Maliki had agreed with McSame.

LeesiD · 1 year ago

Obama is definitely showing leadership on this issue as well as the trip. I have always said that he has extraordinary insight, even while McCain constantly is trying to convince everyone he has the "experience" to make a difference, while not bringing forth any sort of vision, just the same empty rhetoric.