Gonzales Visits Iraq

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Just what they freakin' need....Help from Goonzo on setting up their "legal system" in Iraq....

Gonzales Visits Iraq


By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: August 11, 2007
Filed at 11:02 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, under fire at home with calls for his resignation, is spending some time in Iraq.

The Justice Department said that Gonzales arrived in Baghdad on Saturday for his third trip to Iraq to meet with department officials who have been there to help fashion the country's legal system.

''I am pleased to see firsthand ... the progress that the men and women of the Justice Department have made to rebuild Iraq's legal system and law enforcement infrastructure,'' Gonzales said in a statement released by the department.

His optimistic assessment came despite the frequent sectarian lawlessness and killings in the country.

The attorney general was accompanied by Michael Sullivan, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and John Clark, director of the U.S. Marshals Service, and other department staff.

Gonzales got an update from Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and also planned to meet with Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, and other U.S. and Iraqi officials, the statement said.

more:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Gonzales-Iraq.html

Hey Al, stay awhile, won't ya? You're not needed here, that's for sure. Do some sightseeing...

[Botany]

1. Please stay Al

'I am pleased to see firsthand ... the progress that the men and women of the Justice Department
have made to rebuild Iraq's legal system and law enforcement infrastructure,'' Gonzales said in a
statement released by the department.

What no perjury laws in Iraq?

[hobbit709]

2. Their legal system already resembles what Gonezo wants to do here.

[Webster Green]

3. That makes about as much sense as sending Bolton to "fix" the UN

Opposite world sucks!

[WCGreen]

4. sure he isn't going for secret torture tips from the Baathists....

[acmavm]

5. Why is it these corrupt politicians think that every time they get into trouble

or get caught with their hands in the cookie jar that a quick trip to Iraq will give them some cover? Show what good brave Amerikans they are? Make it look like they have some sense of decency or integrity? Why has it become 'respectable' to use a killing field as a political ploy?