Iraqi PM: Iraqi Troops Ready to Take Over Security

[Keefer]

Source: VOA news.

Iraqi PM: Iraqi Troops Ready to Take Over Security
By VOA News
14 July 2007


Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki gestures as he speaks during a press conference in Baghdad, 14 July 2007
Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki gestures as he speaks during a press conference in Baghdad, 14 July 2007. Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says Iraqi forces are ready to provide full security in the nation whenever U.S. troops leave.

Mr. Maliki told reporters Saturday that Iraqi troops can assume complete responsibility for security at any time. But he added that those forces still need more training and equipment. In a separate development, an aide to former deputy prime minister Ahmed Chalabi said the politician survived an assassination attempt south of Baghdad. Further details have not been confirmed.

Read more: http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-07-14-voa9.cfm

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This will be *'s ticket out of Iraq.

[aquart]

1. Keep the sandlogged equipment. We'll say bye-bye now.

[MADem]

2. We are going on vacation, don't let the door hit you, Uncle Sam!!!

The most interesting part of that story was that someone tried to off Chalabi!!!

[acmavm]

12. No shit! I just automatically started laughing. I don't know why. But that

guy truly does have more lives than the proverbial nine-lived cat. Who's side is the bastard on now? Why, of all people, is he still breathing? Hasn't he pissed off EVERYBODY??

[MADem]

13. Well, if things get hairy, where can he run? Jordan wants his ass in jail!

I doubt the Turks would shelter him...Syria? They might hand him over to Jordan too!

He reminds me of that LIAR character on SNL years back!!!




Yeaaaah, separated at birth....now THAT's the tiCKET!!!!

[xchrom]

3. buh-bye now. n/t

[truth2power]

4. Bush's ticket out of Iraq? Naa...haven't turned all the oil profits

over to foreign corporations yet. When that happens, yeah...we'll leave. Take it to the bank, so to speak!

[ClintonTyree]

7. Exactly......

Bush isn't leaving until the American Oil Companies are assured of their prize: Iraqi oil. That's what this whole thing has been about from the get-go. Bush is prepared to sacrifice as many American lives as it takes to make sure his oil buddies cash in.

[struggle4progress]

5. Iraq PM: Country can manage without U.S.

7/14/2007, 1:33 p.m. CDT
By BUSHRA JUHI
The Associated Press

~snip~ But one of his top aides, Hassan al-Suneid, rankled at the assessment, saying the U.S. was treating Iraq like "an experiment in an American laboratory." He sharply criticised the U.S. military, saying it was committing human rights violations, embarassing the Iraqi government with its tactics and cooperating with "gangs of killers" in its campaign against al-Qaida in Iraq. ~snip~

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari warned earlier this week of civil war and the government's collapse if the Americans leave. But al-Maliki told reporters Saturday, "We say in full confidence that we are able, God willing, to take the responsibility completely in running the security file if the international forces withdraw at any time they want." ~snip~

<al-Suneid> said that the U.S. authorities have embarrassed al-Maliki' government through acts such as constructing a wall around Baghdad's Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah and repeated raids on suspected Shiite militiamen in the capital's eastern slum of Sadr City. He said the U.S. use of airstrikes to hit suspected insurgent positions also kills civilians. ~snip~

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/international/index.ssf?/base/international-39/1184419764250650.xml&storylist=international

[antiimperialist]

6. This undermine claims that Iraq chaos would be even worse if we leave

And even if it's worse, it would be worse because we invaded.

[Phredicles]

8. This SHOULD be big news. I'll be interested to see if it gets any coverage

in the librul media.:eyes:

[TankLV]

9. Oppsie! You mean bush* and the REPUKES were LYING again?!

Let's see this gets any mediw whores airplay is right...

[sbyte]

10. OK, and get a layer to write up the divorce papers

n/t

[NaturalHigh]

11. Good enough for me.

Let's haul ass, folks.

[rodeodance]

14. the fine print squashs the headline