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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 04:04 PM
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Al Maliki's "You can leave anytime you want" remark getting CNN air time!
Edited on Sat Jul-14-07 04:11 PM by annabanana
Just heard on CNN.. Al Maliki's quote that they don't need us anymore. I am surprised it was covered. I can't wait to hear Snow spin this one! Maliki said that they could handle it and that the presence of the US Troops was an "embarrassment" to his government.
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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 04:06 PM
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1. Just in from the WH.
A video of Bush in the oval office stamping his foot. "But I don't WANT to leave!"
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baghdad_bush Donating Member (154 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 04:08 PM
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2. BRAWHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA
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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 04:12 PM
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4. Welcome to DU!
It isn't often I get to say hello to such a new member. Glad you got a chuckle out of that.

It's pretty credible, isn't it?
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baghdad_bush Donating Member (154 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 04:15 PM
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5. I thought that comment was GREAT!! Thanks for the welcome...
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Lochloosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 08:41 PM
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20. Welcome to DU baghdad_bush
:toast:
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 04:10 PM
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3. Bush can leave WHEN HE WANTS? That's the problem--he doesn't WANT to
and Al Maliki doesn't want Bush to leave, either, because he's the only thing propping up Al Maliki's authority.

:boring:
rocknation
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kineneb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 11:33 PM
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23. they would have to give up all those "temporary" bases
and that new, fancy embassy... and all the oil profits they hoped to get for their corporate cronies...and Halliburton's cash cow... and, and, and...

The time to leave was yesterday. Do we have to wait for a replay of the last days of Saigon? The longer the military-industrial complex remains in Iraq, the more blowback awaits us (now reading Blowback).
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 04:16 PM
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6. cheney to Malike---yOu idiot--you got the cue cards mixed up--the oil reme
mber?--
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 04:17 PM
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7. Surprised it's getting airtime too..
cnn being one arm of the catapulting propoganda machine.
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trashcanistanista Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 04:32 PM
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10. Finally,
he gets on CNN! He's been saying this for some time. I wonder what made CNN put this on?
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gulliver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 04:30 PM
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8. I think Al-Maliki could be nailing Bush
Bush just finished lying about the progress in Iraq. Then Al-Maliki throws this bombshell. The Bush Administration has been bad mouthing Al-Maliki for some time now. Last week there were rumors of a no-confidence vote. Maybe the Shia are making their move. Take the country and the oil.

That wrecks Bush. He doesn't want a stable, democratically elected, firmly Shia-dominated Iraq. That's an Iran/Iraq Shia block right in the middle of the ME, and an unequivocal failure of Bush's policy. Bush and the GOP need their failure to be disputable, at least through 2008.

Did Bush's people misunderestimate Al-Maliki?
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 04:40 PM
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11. It wouldn't be anywhere near
the first time the bushits misread a situation. I can only hope the Iraqis get to keep their oil and the cheneyrats keep their oily money-grubbing, dirty 5-fingers discount off it.
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cui bono Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 04:50 PM
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14. At least through whatever date the Iraq Oil Law is passed. n/t
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snappyturtle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 04:31 PM
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9. Is this another way of saying the oil deal is done? Ha.ha.ha......n/t
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 04:42 PM
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12. How about Monday???
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cui bono Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 04:46 PM
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13. Didn't the Iraqi "govt." just say last week that they wanted us to stay?
I swear I remember hearing that...
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 05:02 PM
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15. THE WAR IS OVER! THE WAR IS OVER!
BAGHDAD—Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki shrugged off U.S. doubts of his government's military and political progress on Saturday, saying Iraqi forces are capable and American troops can leave "any time they want."
One of his top aides, meanwhile, accused the United States of embarrassing the Iraqi government by violating human rights and treating his country like an "experiment in a U.S. lab."
http://www.mercurynews.com/nationworld/ci_6375947
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Tesla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 05:08 PM
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16. WOW!!
an experiment in a U.S. lab!!

Now that says something!
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 08:45 PM
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21. That's telling it like it is
Damn!!
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 06:23 PM
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17. Iraqi PM Al Maliki is telling Dubya to take U.S. troops out now
....Bush did say that he'll leave when Iraq asks the U.S. to leave and that has happened. So begin now please!
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-15-07 07:43 AM
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24. "Take the troops out now" is exactly what Al Maliki is NOT saying
Edited on Sun Jul-15-07 07:44 AM by rocknation
If THAT'S what he REALLY wants, that's what he would say: "Take the troops out now." What he's actually done is given permission for Bush to stay as long as he "wants," which covers BOTH their asses.

:headbang:
rocknation
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-15-07 10:52 AM
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25. Thank you for interpreting the fascist double speak for me
...it does get confusing
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BenDavid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 07:03 PM
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18. Well bush should take the
bait and tell his friend Mal that the U.S. will begin leaving and be out by April 08. BUT, this Ahzes ponim (Impudent fellow) wants to leavve Iraq on his terms with a victory....Whatever that means....How many more of our sons and daughters will have to die and be disabled for life before both House of Congress stop him....I'm talking about over 300 votes in the House and 70 votes in the Senate.....

I do thank you
Ben David
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Time for change Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 07:53 PM
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19. Good for him, and good for CNN for covering it
Maybe Snow will spin it by saying that that Al Maliki doesn't understand the situation.
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dapper Donating Member (755 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 11:26 PM
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22. Just Leave!
I vote that we get out. Obviously Al-Qaida is getting stronger, as strong as they were prior to 9-11. Being in Iraq (and afganistan) has done nothing to protect us from Al-Qaida. And with all those terrorists coming into the US from England... Despite Bush telling us how safe we are (anytime election day comes around)... Suddenly the boogie man comes out of the closet...

Gosh am I using Iraq and Al-Qaida and Bush in the same statement?

I know most of this is sarcastic but obviously by all reports, the result is the same...

BUSH=FAILURE!
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