Bush WARNS freedom-lovin' eye-racky people: "patience has limits"

[Human Torch]

Bush warns Iraqis that patience has limits

OOOK! OOOK! OOOK! OOOOOOOOOOOOOK!*

* Freely translated from the original chimpanzee: "Patience has its limits, eye-rackies! ITS LIMITS! OOK!"

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&u=/nm/20061025/pl_nm/iraq_dc_45

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. Bush, under fire over his Iraq policies less than two weeks before elections on November 7 that could cost his Republicans control of the U.S. Congress, voiced qualified confidence in Maliki. "We're with him as long as he continues to make tough decisions," Bush said.

[ACK]

1. Isn' t this what Kerry was ridiculed for suggesting a year ago???

I mean Kerry said we needed to push the Iraqi government to begin to stand on their own or we would start pulling out.

Or am I remembering that wrong?

[Human Torch]

4. And the response was "When they stand up, we'll stand down."

SO...

...no one's standin' up, because they're too busy dodging IEDs and suicide bombers. Every other day there's a story about "Iraqi police recruits" getting blown to smithereens.

Believe me...after November 7th, all of the "patience has its limits" rhetoric will screech to an abrupt halt.

:patriot:

[BootinUp]

2. eye rackies: his patience is killin us. n/t

:eyes:

[BushOut06]

3. Didn't Bush recently say that Maliki was doing a "heckuva job"?

Pretty sure I remember that.

[acmavm]

5. Oh frick, now I'm in trouble. They're wondering what made me

burst out laughing like that.

Shoot.

[madrchsod]

6. i can`t wait to read the iraqi blogs later tonight

i`m sure they have a thing or two to say about "their leader".

[elocs]

7. I wish they could settle on an accepted pronunciation of "Iraq".

Eye-rack
Eye-rock
Ear-rack
Ear-rock

One little four-letter country--who would guess there would be so many ways to pronounce it?