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To: Sully- who wrote (104285)	8/1/2007 5:37:23 PM
From: JBTFD	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

This is not a war. It is an occupation and we are fighting insurgents.

To: Sully- who wrote (104285)	8/1/2007 6:29:28 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Respond to of 173976

progress gw style, lol "With apparently nothing better to do, the Iraqi Parliament just went on vacation. The executive branch, well, might as well do the same. It's not as if it's a functioning government anyway. The main Sunni Arab political bloc quit the Iraqi cabinet on Wednesday, plunging the government into crisis on a day when suicide bombers killed more than 70 people with massive strikes in the capital. The Sunni Accordance Front said its five cabinet members and Deputy Prime Minister Salam al-Zobaie would resign from Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government. "This is probably the most serious political crisis we have faced since the passage of the constitution. If unresolved the implications are grave," the remaining deputy prime minister, Barhim Salih, a Kurd, told Reuters. Maliki spoke to U.S. President George W. Bush by video link and reassured him "dialogue with our brothers in the Accordance Front will not stop" despite the boycott, Maliki's office said. White House spokesman Tony Snow said after the call: "The president emphasized that the Iraqi people and the American people need to see action, not just words ... on the political front," Snow told reporters in Washington. The Iraqi government said 1,653 civilians were killed in July, a third more than the previous month, despite a fall in the number of deaths among U.S. troops [...] Those standing down include the ministers of culture, women, planning, and higher education, and the junior foreign affairs minister. Their withdrawal may have little practical effect on a government already paralyzed by infighting. The Shi'ite bloc of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr withdrew in April. But the withdrawal was a blow to reconciliation efforts: luring the large Sunni bloc into government had been hailed as a major achievement when Maliki took power last year. Stay the course yadda yadda yadda resolve yadda yadda yadda surge! yadda yadda yadda 9/11 yadda yadda yadda September yadda yadda yadda... Meanwhile, our troops keep dying."