Kimstu
March 29, 2006, 11:23pm
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President Bush doesn’t want, doesn’t support, doesn’t accept Jaafari as Iraqi PM any more, according to Ambassador Khalilzad.
I guess the honeymoon’s over :
George W. Bush in July 2005:
Mr. Prime Minister, I am honored to welcome you to the White House. As the leader of Iraq’s first democratically elected government in more than 50 years, you are helping to lift your country from decades of fear and oppression.
The Prime Minister is a great Iraqi patriot, he’s a friend of liberty, he’s a strong partner for peace and freedom. […]
You had elections; 8.5 million people voted, and this good man is now in charge of the government. I don’t want to be passing the buck, as we say, but we’re more than willing to help reconstruction efforts, but this is a sovereign government […] with an elected Prime Minister by the people of Iraq. And so we want to look forward to working with the government. Our role is to help. His role is to govern and lead.
Squink
March 29, 2006, 11:25pm
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BrainGlutton:
Hmmm? Cite?
Here
Ambassador Khalilzad said that President Bush “doesn’t want, doesn’t support, doesn’t accept” Mr. Jaafari to be the next prime minister,
Today we learn that all of Mr. Bush’s fuck ups in Iraq are Saddam’s fault:Bush Blames Saddam for Iraq Instability complete text of the speech .
The conquest would have been a cakewalk, if only Saddam hadn’t been such a bastard.
SteveG1
March 29, 2006, 11:27pm
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Thank you for posting the link cite for me. So much for a free and indenpendent Iraq. A vassal state is probably more like it.
Whats oil at now? 65? Iraq is a vessel as well as a vassal.
And the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true?
No, the potion with the poison is in the vessel with the pestle; that chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
(Sorry; I could have resisted, but I chose not to.)
rjung
March 31, 2006, 1:01am
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Maybe Bush just wants to export Republican-style elections to Iraq.
Only problem is that the Diebold machines weren’t ready in time for the last election…
<Tom Lehrer>
But what about the flagon with the dragon?
I think we should really be concerned about the ballots with the shallots.
Squink
April 1, 2006, 11:40pm
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After grilling Bush, Helen Thomas gets thousands of flowers
By the time the Federal Express delivery was complete, there were 108 dozen roses, nearly 1,300 in every color. They were the result of an e-mail campaign to show support for Hearst columnist Helen Thomas after she grilled President Bush about his Iraq policy at last week’s White House news conference.
scotandrsn:
*Not knocking him actually, it’s pretty much in the job description for a press secretary. I recall years ago in the 80s that John Chancellor did a TV special where the panel was every living former press secretary, from I believe Eisenhower’s or Truman’s guys up through at least Jody Powell from the Carter administration. Powell was the only one of the bunch who allowed himself to show even the slightest sign of having an objective, possibly critical opinion of the policies it had been their job to explain to the press. Everyone else was just as much of a toady as they had been while on the job.
Just happened to come across an old New York Times review of the broadcast , in case anyone’s interested. It was later than I remembered, and the reviewer’s impressions of the show are different that I recall me 23-year-old self’s being, but in any event it was fascinating, in case you ever have a chance to view a tape of it.