U.S. Losing Patience, Senators Tell Iraqis - McCain and Feingold

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- As a gunbattle raged south of Baghdad, Sens. John McCain and Russell Feingold told Iraqi leaders Saturday that American patience was growing thin and they needed to urgently overcome their stalemate and form a national unity government.

It was the second high-level U.S. delegation in less than a week delivering the same stark message to Iraqi politicians as the Bush administration steps up pressure to overcome the political impasse that threatens to scuttle hopes to start an American troop pullout this summer.

"We need very badly to form this unity government as soon as possible," McCain, R-Ariz., said at a news conference after meetings with President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari. "We all know the polls show declining support among the American people."

The U.S. delegation also voiced alarm about increasing sectarian violence in Iraq showing itself in the daily count of drive-by shootings, bombings and dumped corpses, victims of execution-style killings in the shadowy Shiite-Sunni settling of scores.


Is it just me or does that headline not make a lick of sense? What are these senators waiting for the Iraqis to do? Didn't we invade them? Maybe the Iraqis are waiting for us to leave? Are all our senators all on drugs or something?

water, electricity, security, freedom ?

"It's the reality of a situation like this that when you have a large troop presence that it has the tendency to fuel the insurgency because they can make the incorrect and unfair claim that somehow the United States is here to occupy this country, which of course is not true," Feingold said.

They're on kool-aid.


Actually I find this story interesting because of which two Senators they are, because on the account I read McCain did the talking while Feingold was reported to have nodded his head in in agreement, and because of the fact of the gun battle (between Sunnis and Shiites) happening within earshot could not have been hidden from them.

I do think it indicates that the Senators have been living in a kind of bubble world of their own, getting their information from the MSM, or from the scraps of intelligence that the Administration lets filter through to them.

I'm hopeful that a little on the ground reality might focus their minds on what a mess Bush and his administration have gotten us into.

Iraq is a dangerous place. A little I.E.D. in front of the Feingold and McCain's Humvee and Bushco's not only rid of two thorns in the side and has two martyr's to the cause that both Democrats and Republicans can rally around.

OK I've been watching too many movies. Tinfoil begone! Begone I say!

that somehow the United States is here to occupy this country, which of course is not true," Feingold said.

Feingold has his moments of truth but this is not one of them.

I want the troops out. I think * is purposely keep Iraq in a mess as an excuse to stay there and grab the oil.

"The terrorists want to control the oil. Our way of life will be at risk". George W. Bush (Nov. 2005)

is destroying our way of life.