The article referenced below shows why we are in a no-win situation in Iraq. And what neither Bush nor his supporters "get". Somehow, Bush appears to believe that his rhetoric in the States doesn't make it to Iraq.
Excerpts from news.yahoo.com
"Why are the Americans drawing terrorism into Iraq?" asked Abdul Ridha al-Hafadhi, 58, head of a humanitarian aid group.
"Why don't they find another place to fight terrorism?" he asked. "I don't feel comforted by Bush's remarks; there must be a timetable for their departure."
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A Sunni former minister in the previous, U.S.-sponsored interim government, who has made much in recent weeks of what he says are contacts with insurgent leaders, launched a new political movement on Wednesday, which he said would involve figures from the "legitimate Iraqi resistance."
U.S. officials appear keen to split apart the alliance between nationalists and violent Islamists; Iraqi officials have said they will not prosecute people who have fought the Americans. Killers of civilians would be treated differently.
"LEGITIMATE RESISTANCE"
"The birth of this political bloc is to silence the skeptics who say there is no legitimate Iraqi resistance and that they cannot reveal their political face," former electricity minister Ayham al-Samarai told a news conference to present his National Council for the Reconstruction and Reunification of Iraq.
Among its goals, he said, were recognizing "the right of the Iraqi people to resist the occupation by all possible means and to differentiate between terrorism and resistance."
Are they dancin' in the streets in Bagdhad yet, Mr. Cheney? You find any flowers yet? Nope, no flowers there. Must be in Syria, with the WMDs. |
