Maliki: No, Really, Leave
The Bush administration has shifted from a “time horizon” for leaving Iraq to an “aspirational timetable,” but Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is having none of it saying that there is “fixed date which is the end of 2011 to end any foreign presence on Iraqi soil.” No doubt the specifics of this will continue to go back and forth as long as the White House is controlled by people harboring neo-imperial fantasies, but the point about the state of Iraqi opinion couldn’t be clearer — Maliki doesn’t think it’s politically tenable to demand anything less than a clear timetable for full withdrawal. Smart political leadership in the United States would consider this an open door that we should walk through — a way to extricate ourselves from Iraq in an honorable and relatively painless manner.
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August 25th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
no, no, that’s not what they want. did i mention that i’m a pow?
August 25th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Time horizons, aspirational timetables … Aaarrggh … So sick of the Bush lingo and all the lame-ass jargon. They must have folks locked in the basement cranking out these little jewels.
Aspirational timetables sounds to me like the gal who plugs in her vacuum cleaner and leaves it in the middle of the living room, hoping agst. hope that her companions in life will take it upon themselves to turn the beast on and clean the place up.
Maliki wants his freaking house back — What is the problem?
August 25th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Smart political leadership in the United States would consider this an open door that we should walk through — a way to extricate ourselves from Iraq in an honorable and relatively painless manner.
Exactly! If we are to avoid the recriminations that recur about Vietnam even decades later, as well as the ‘who lost Iraq’ filth that the GOP will spew endlessly, leaving at the request/demand of Iraq is something damned few of the US people will contest. It takes the domestic politics out of a foreign policy decision that has no clear-cut resolution.
August 25th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Don’t worry, Iraq, I don’t mind leaving,
I’d just like it to be my idea.
August 25th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
‘Stab in the back’ is a feature.
August 25th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Er, Matt, I’d quibble with some of YOUR language, too. You grumble about “neo-imperial fantasies,” but as a Neo-Imperialist, I of course hate to see the term clouded.
Long-term basing of troops against that peoples’ will and and treaties giving the occupyers special legal rights are the OLD-FAHIONED kind of Imperialism. Nothing neo- about it.
August 25th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Bush is like a boorish dinner guest who can’t take a hint.
Host: “Yawn, I can’t believe I have to get up early to take my son to a soccer game. It was really nice that you could come over this evening. We need to do this again soon.”
Bush: “Huh? Can I get another glass of wine here?”
August 25th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
The nutjob conspiracy theorist this adminstration has cultivated in me wonders if the R’s wanted to lose a war so that they could have something to bitch about for the next 30 years.
August 25th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
This is going to be really tough for the Bush Administration to finesse. We didn’t invade Iraq just to pull up and leave when they had a functioning government. We invaded Iraq so we could have a permanent military presence in the Middle East. Bush, McCain and Obama would be perfectly happy to withdraw combat troops but not withdraw ALL troops. What would be the point of that? Spend all this money and kill thousands of people for nothing? Why did we build big bases in Iraq? Not to leave just because the people there don’t want American troops on those bases.
August 26th, 2008 at 5:02 am
Maliki is operating in this manner for two reasons: 1) political credibility in the upcoming elections, and 2) Iran has told him this is the bottom line: no US troops in Iraq – or at least not enough to be militarily effective against Iran – meaning no air bases and no combat troops.
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