Bush warns Iraqis that patience has limits

[Barrett808]

Bush warns Iraqis that patience has limits
By Steve Holland

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After a protest by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, President Bush said on Wednesday that American patience had its limits over Iraq but pledged not to put unbearable pressure on the country's leaders.

Tensions between the two leaders surfaced a day after top U.S. and civilian officials in Baghdad said Iraq's government had agreed to a "schedule" of political and security steps aimed at forging a united, stable democracy.

The United States was pressing Iraqi leaders to take "bold steps" to end sectarian violence, and "we are making it clear that American patience is not unlimited," Bush told a news conference in Washington.

Even so, he added, "We will not put more pressure on the Iraqi government than it can bear."

"We'll push him (Maliki) but we're not going to push him to the point where he can't achieve the objective," Bush said.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061025/ts_nm/iraq_dc

[leQ]

1. what a hypocrite

one thing you can always count on bush to do.... himself guilty of those things he despises.

[kurth]

2. Yep, sounds like Iraq needs an invasion/regime change/women's rights/democracy/freedom/more

money for Halliburton.

[Solly Mack]

3. More of the "blame Iraq" talking point

America is getting tired of you damn Iraqis not adapting to our invasion and occupation!

Blame the victim....it's not Bush's fault...it's the Iraqi's fault. It's not the US governments fault....it's the Iraqi governments fault

[SpiralHawk]

4. "We need an immediate boost in oil profits for republicon cronies." - AWOL

"We are making insufficient billions, and need more, more, more for the republicon oil and munitions cronies."

- George AWOL Bush, Preppy-in-chief

[AIJ Alom]

5. So is it time to install a Saddam Hussien-like dictator yet ? Is Ferdinand Marcos or

Manuel Noriega available ? Or are they still in the Neo-con doghouse ?

[Amonester]

9. Darth Chenious says he'll send Negroponte this time. - eom

[subterranean]

6. What will happen when we run out of patience??

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

7. And...............

when your patience runs out, what do you propose to do Mr. Bush? Invade? Drop more bombs? Send in more troops? :mad:
Sheesh, what a Moran!!!!!!!!!!!

[wtmusic]

8. The oxymoron of American Patience

History will show that once Americans shot their Mission Accomplished wad, Junior, came the real war--fought in the back alleys of Baghdad--and lost by those patient Americans one soldier at a time.

[LynnTheDem]

10. After KICKING their door in, after BOMBING the fuck out of them,

after TORTURE and RAPE and MURDER...our "patience" is running out.

And down down down some more goes our stature in the world

[FreeStateDemocrat]

11. Nuri al-Maliki should just tell us to get out and then we would have to

leave. Isn't that what dimson has said in the past?

[donco6]

12. The Beating Will Continue

Until Morale Improves.

And by golly, we're losing patience!

[htuttle]

13. Or else what? We invade them?

What a shithead.

Dumb as a bag of fucking doorknobs...