'Maliki: Dead Man Walking' -- tompaine

[specimenfred1984]

---- The address by Iraq’s puppet prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday was a surreal and other-worldly exercise in the make-believe.

Maliki’s message was a simple one, and he delivered it while standing in front of his puppet master, the scowling Dick Cheney. Did Maliki headline the sectarian bloodletting and ethnic cleansing in Iraq, the death squads and militias? No. Did Maliki present a plan for securing Iraq’s capital? No. Instead, he stuck to the Republican Party’s 2006 electoral talking points: that Iraq is the central front in the so-called Global War on Terrorism. He cited 9/11, a crime perpetrated by what he called “impostors of Islam,” and he portrayed the violence in Iraq as the direct continuation of America’s effort against al-Qaida: ----

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/07/26/maliki_dead_man_walking.php

[LastDemocratInSC]

1. Well, Uncle Dickie was tugging hard on Maliki's umbilical cord.

What else could Maliki have done?

HOLY MOLY! That makes 500 posts! I'm halfway to heaven, except for that time in Purgatory with the 700 Club.

[babylonsister]

2. Read this please! Nominated! And here's a taste:

” If the Democrats win back one or both houses of Congress in November, he said, that would unleash a series of investigative hearings on Iraq, the war on terrorism, and civil liberties that could fatally weaken the administration and remove the last props of political support for the war. And that prospect has moved many moderate GOPers, such as Rep. Chris Shays of Connecticut, Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, and Jim Gerlach and Charles Dent of Pennsylvania to question the Bush administration’s stay-the-course idiocy."

[EFerrari]

4. Done. n/t

[chill_wind]

3. And then who comes after Maliki? nt

[EFerrari]

5. Whoever can read script cold. n/t

[teryang]

6. This smells like a dictatorship

Maybe Maliki reminded the legislators too much of themselves.

[bemildred]

7. Excellent, thanks for posting. nt