so..do "we" or don't "we" support Maliki?

[w8liftinglady]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/23/nie/index.html
-snip
The intelligence community briefed the media on the assessment hours after senior Bush administration officials told CNN the classified version of the report expressed doubts that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is able to lead the war-torn country.

The report concluded that al-Maliki may not have the ability or capacity to "push forward" legislative reforms, according to one of the officials who read the classified version.

_snip
The estimate came a day after President Bush defended al-Maliki in a speech in Kansas City, Missouri.

"Prime Minister al-Maliki's a good guy -- good man with a difficult job and I support him," Bush said. "And it's not up to the politicians in Washington, D.C., to say whether he will remain in his position."

[Raven]

1. Perfect scapegoat. They'll keep him around for awhile. n/t

[rodeodance]

2. Bush was for him before he was against him (now lukewarm )

[Robbien]

3. It is classified

can't you read?

just joking.

[Inuca]

4. Isn't this...

... almost identical to what was being said one year ago before * met Maliki in Jordan?

[rateyes]

5. I'll support him when

he tells us to get the hell out of the sovereign nation he is supposed to be leading.