Uppity Iraqis

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As the Bushtorians will tell you, it was shortly after the attacks on our homeland on nine eleven that the democratic country of Iraq asked us to liberate them from themselves. George W. Bush, being the benevolent ruler that he is, was quick to respond to this request.

So now here we some six years later. We have managed to remove any semblance of the pre-invasion Iraq; decimate the infrastructure, displace the population, create new ethnically cleansed neighborhoods and, as a consequence, afforded the new (and improved) hand-picked government the opportunity to create a whole new country modeled in our image. The cost has been relatively minor; somewhere around a million dead Iraqis and just over 4100 dead Americans. We have totally upgraded the Iraqi military and police forces – not only their equipment but also their methods of capture and interrogation. And yet today……..

Iraq, U.S. disagree on timetable for troop withdrawal

By Leila Fadel
McClatchy Newspapers

"BAGHDAD — Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Monday that all U.S. troops must be out of Iraq by 2011 and there would be no security agreement between the United States and Iraq without an unconditional timetable for withdrawal. This was a direct challenge to the Bush administration, which insists the timing for troop departure would be based on conditions on the ground.

"No pact or an agreement should be set without being based on full sovereignty, national common interests, and no foreign soldier should remain on Iraqi land, and there should be a specific deadline and it should not be open," Maliki told a meeting of tribal leaders in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone.”

WTF??!!?? Who do these ungrateful people think they are? I mean, we will be the judges of when they have been fully liberated.

"But the White House disputed Maliki's statement and made clear the two countries are still at odds over the terms of a U.S. withdrawal.

"Any decisions on troops will be based on conditions on the ground in Iraq," White House spokesman Tony Fratto said in Crawford, Texas, where President Bush is vacationing. "That has always been our position. It continues to be our position."”

The next thing you know, these people are going to start thinking they are a sovereign nation or something.

How ridicules………

Peace,
Chad (The Left) Shue