Iraqi Parliament
The Iraqi parliament is talking about taking a two-month summer vacation. Our troops are dying in Iraq, and their parliament is going to go on vacation. They appear to be attempting to surpass Bush, who took a six week vacation in Crawford, Texas just before 9/11.
The Bush regime has been saying it’s up to the Iraqi people and we’ve got to support their government. With the parliament going on vacation, instead of making important political decisions like sharing oil revenues, it will be difficult to sustain that argument with the American public.
A majority of the Iraqi parliament is actually getting ready to call for timelines for withdrawal and a freeze on the number of U.S. troops. We should hope that, the Iraqi parliament sets timelines, before they go on vacation. That would be more than congressional Republicans have allowed the Democratic majority to get done.
Bush became very angry with congressional Democrats, who tried to get something done by passing a timeline for withdrawal, which he promptly vetoed. He said “Democrats need to stop playing politics with the troops,”
By insisting that Democrats are putting our troops, in the middle of a political battle, he’s attempting to deny that everything that goes on in Washington is all about politics. The idea that politics shouldn’t be played is like saying democracy shouldn’t work. Politics is what democracy runs on, particularly in a very important national debate about war.
More troops are dying in Iraq, because we’ve taken the fight to the insurgents, thereby putting more of them in harm’s way. This is a cynical strategy, because there aren’t enough troops to make a permanent difference and the insurgents simply move to another neighborhood.
Bush doesn’t listen to his generals, he’s demonstrated a pattern of replacing generals when they’ve told him news he didn’t want to hear. Bush hasn’t listening to anyone. It’s not really that much of a surprise, since he has been totally arrogant from the very beginning. At some point, you would think he’d realize, that he had better look like he’s actually listening to somebody because nothing his regime has done has worked.
The Bush regime has been saying it’s up to the Iraqi people and we’ve got to support their government. With the parliament going on vacation, instead of making important political decisions like sharing oil revenues, it will be difficult to sustain that argument with the American public.
A majority of the Iraqi parliament is actually getting ready to call for timelines for withdrawal and a freeze on the number of U.S. troops. We should hope that, the Iraqi parliament sets timelines, before they go on vacation. That would be more than congressional Republicans have allowed the Democratic majority to get done.
Bush became very angry with congressional Democrats, who tried to get something done by passing a timeline for withdrawal, which he promptly vetoed. He said “Democrats need to stop playing politics with the troops,”
By insisting that Democrats are putting our troops, in the middle of a political battle, he’s attempting to deny that everything that goes on in Washington is all about politics. The idea that politics shouldn’t be played is like saying democracy shouldn’t work. Politics is what democracy runs on, particularly in a very important national debate about war.
More troops are dying in Iraq, because we’ve taken the fight to the insurgents, thereby putting more of them in harm’s way. This is a cynical strategy, because there aren’t enough troops to make a permanent difference and the insurgents simply move to another neighborhood.
Bush doesn’t listen to his generals, he’s demonstrated a pattern of replacing generals when they’ve told him news he didn’t want to hear. Bush hasn’t listening to anyone. It’s not really that much of a surprise, since he has been totally arrogant from the very beginning. At some point, you would think he’d realize, that he had better look like he’s actually listening to somebody because nothing his regime has done has worked.
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