Dems whack Iraqi PM for not standing up for Israel

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Dems whack Iraqi PM for not standing up for Israel

Posted by Joshua Holland at 9:56 AM on July 26, 2006.



Has the world gone completely insane?

It looks that way to me. Consider these two stories.

First, this from Reuters:

http://www.alternet.org/images/managed/Blog+Image_thumb_maliki.jpg

U.S. congressional Democrats expressed alarm on Tuesday over Iraq's denunciation of Israel in the Middle East conflict, and some said Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's address to Congress should be canceled unless he apologizes.

This story has so much that's so wrong, and on so many levels.


A group of about 20 House of Representatives Democrats sent a letter to House Speaker Dennis Hastert urging the Illinois Republican to secure an apology from Maliki or cancel the address on Wednesday to a joint meeting of Congress. Some said they planned to boycott the speech.<…>

OK, here come the Dems, who were too chicken-shit to stand up to Bush when he declared a War on Terrr (said chicken-shititude having led to the invasion of Iraq, secret prisons, etc.), but now have found sufficient spine to take a transparently political whack at our puppet ruler in Iraq for his poor puppetude.

What was his crime, again?


Iraq's U.S.-backed government denounced Israel's raids on Lebanon and Gaza. Maliki last week called for "the world to take quick stands to stop the Israeli aggression."

That's right. More specifically, he said "The Israeli attacks and airstrikes are completely destroying Lebanon's infrastructure," and warned that the conflict could "spill over to the entire Mideast." True on both counts, but something that those same Dems would never dream of saying for fear of getting a deadly a 95 percent rating from AIPAC.


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http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/39513/

[MrTriumph]

1. Alito? No problem. Spying? Yawn. Condemn Israel? NO WAY!!!!!

Just who do the Democrats in the House represent?

[stepnw1f]

3. Not Me... That's for Sure

[acmejack]

2. Their Constituency of course!

NO, not those idiots back home! The people here in DC with the deep pockets, the important folks, that ones who have made it into the oligarchy.

[BurtWorm]

4. Which "ones" are you talking about?

[acmejack]

6. "Ones" employed by Locke, Liddell & Sapp, Preston Gates & Ellis, etc.

Those kind of "Ones"! "Ones" may also work for the American Enterprise Institute or The Brookings Foundation. There is a multiplicity of positions awaiting the properly connected "One" within the Beltway, the connections and favors must be curried before the One's birth by his or her parents, this is extremely important, in most cases you will find that "Oneship" is generational. Like all rules, however, there are exceptions. Money and notoriety, or both provide the surest ingress to that otherwise rather exclusive territory.

[BurtWorm]

7. I was just curious.

I see which "ones" you mean now. Just needed a little clarification. ;)

[CuteNFuzzy]

5. Well he's not a puppet if he doesn't do what we say ....

[NNN0LHI]

8. If this was a puppet who had been installed by a Dem administration...

...at the cost in lives and money it has cost us to install this idiot not one Republican would have attended this phony baloney speech today. They would have called it just like it is. Every other word out of their mouths would be "puppet" interchanged occasionally with the word "stooge" to describe Maliki from now until election day.

And you know something? They would have been right.

Don

[Cocoa]

9. absolutely right

we're probably going to be going to war with Maliki in ten years.

The neocons will be making him into a boogie man, and the dems are on record as having denounced him in real time and the GOP are on record as having defended him.

[NNN0LHI]

11. Wouldn't surprise me at all to see our Marines pulling this thug Maliki...

...out of some spider hole in Iraq some day.

I bet when he goes to sleep he has nightmares about just such a scenario.

Don

[CuteNFuzzy]

10. all hypocrites if they are not also denouncing Israel's crimes