Maliki Speaks Truth (and Truthiness) to Power

[The Bastard1]

The Maliki address to the Congress went off on Wednesday despite some calls for Speaker Hastert to withdraw the invitation after the Iraqi Prime Minister was quoted as saying of the current Lebanon crisis, “The Israeli attacks and airstrikes are completely destroying Lebanon’s infrastructure… I condemn these aggressions… We call on the world to take quick stands to stop the Israeli aggression.” There was a private apology from a spokesman, though, which was apparently good enough, and so Rahm Emanuel, the consummate New Democrat, who’s like Bill Clinton with a chastity belt, failed to score hawk-points with his efforts to expose hypocrisy in the GOP leadership. In reality, there’s no hypocrisy here. After all, Illinois Republican Henry Hyde summed up the Maliki comments as, “the statement of an amateur politician… What he said I think was not carefully thought out, though it was a window, I suppose, to how some of these Arab leaders feel.” Sound familiar?

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