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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tonto who wrote (76899)	6/6/2006 12:16:28 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

You have no proof of the specific allegations you made. I knew it.

To: tonto who wrote (76899)	6/6/2006 2:53:32 PM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 81568

There is a hallucinatory, Alice in Wonderland quality to recent suggestions that the formation of an elected Iraqi government will allow US and British troops to withdraw from Iraq in large numbers. No sooner did Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki say that Iraqi troops would take over most of Iraq from the departing "coalition" by year's end, confirming the whisperings of British and US officials, than the United States announced that 3,500 reserves were headed in the other direction, from their bases in Kuwait to Ramadi. All that is missing from this picture is White House Press Secretary Tony Snow dressed up as the March Hare explaining to the press corps why adding troops is the same as withdrawing them... ...Blair, Bush and Maliki surely have good reason for the creative ambiguity they are engaging in. The US is gearing up for a congressional election in which Iraq is the Republicans' albatross, and a phantom withdrawal is better than none at all. Meanwhile, Blair's sunken fortunes within the Labour Party are not helped by the Iraq horror show, and he must spin furiously to keep afloat. And Maliki's bravado is essential to burnishing the nationalist credentials on which his government's survival depends. But spin does not change the reality that the "coalition" is stuck with a relentless war and a divisive political process. The predominantly Sunni insurgency rages unabated, Iraq's armed forces remain recast sectarian militias, and the still-dominant Shi'ite parties that Bush and Blair are banking on to bring stability are tied to the Shi'ite militias whose death squads run rampant... atimes.com