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John McCain's campaign could not have seen this coming -- the presumptive Republican presidential nominee forced on the defensive by, of all people, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki. Much as McCain and his staff wanted to hammer home their view that Barack Obama is clueless about Iraq, Maliki seemingly gave the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee a big dose of credibility when word surf

Gateway Pundit - Some 1000 protesters took to the streets of Kut supporting the recent military operations of Maliki in Basra. After the huge win over the Shiite militias in Basra and Sadr City this week, Iraqis rallied in support of their democratically elected leader and military.

From Time magazine:"Sa'ad Mutlieck was one resident of Sadr City heartened to see armored columns of Iraqi Army forces rolling deep into his neighborhood on Tuesday. "We hope the government is serious about ending all the armed groups so life could be back to normal," said Mutlieck. "The situation is very, very bad."'Odd; hadn't Maliki and Iraqi forces totally screwed up and lost (or not gained) S

Several Iraqi deputies bitterly attack PM Maliki over a bloody military campaign against forces loyal to Moqtada Sadr. A news by AsianLoveStories.com. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fasianlovestories.com%2Firaqi-mps-call-maliki-depraved'; addthis_title = 'Iraqi+MPs+call+Maliki+%26%238216%3Bdepraved%26%238217%3B'; addthis_pub = 'asianlove';

Last Saturday , I questioned whether Shiite militias were copying the strategy and tactics of Hezbollah in its defensive standoff Lebanon in 2006 against the Israelis. Unlike other commentators who forecast victory based on body counts, I was pessimistic about the eventual outcome: "But the Shiite militia leaders have already achieved one strategic goal: they showed Pentagon planners and American voters that the Iraqi army is nowhere ready to secure Iraq, much as Hezbollah exposed the weaknesses...(read more)

Iraqi leader says Baghdad violence down A woman walks through a room of a house that caught fire after a roadside bomb blast in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2007. A roadside bomb missed a passing U.S. military convoy in eastern Baghdad’s Baladiyat district on Sunday but killed a 12-year-old girl and wounded four other Iraqis, police said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) By BUSHRA JUHI, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 53 minutes ago BAGHDAD - The number of bombings and suicide attacks has dropped dramatically in the Iraqi capital, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Sunday, claiming sectarian violence “is closed now.” Meanwhile, a roadside bomb missed a U.S. convoy in eastern Baghdad, killing a 12-year-old girl and wounding four other Iraqis, police said. Al-Maliki, a Shiite Muslim, told reporters that “terrorist acts” including car bombings and suicide attacks have dropped by 77 percent from last year’s high, a sign that Sunni-Shiite violence “is cl

“There are American officials who consider Iraq as if it were one of their villages, for example Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin. They should come to their senses.”   Those words were spoken by Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. So it appears as though rhetoric and words that are muttered here for pure political reasons do get heard in Iraq. The Democrats like to think their words go unheard over in Iraq, they don’t believe their words have consequences. If Maliki heard what Clinton and Levin have said over here, let us look at some of the words our enemy may have heard. Harry Reid: “I believe … that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything Dick Durbin: “If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime — Pol Pot or others — that

Today Iraqi Prime Minister attacked Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin. Glad we heard this news after NBC decided to have Keith Olbermann pretend to be a real newsman. Thankfully the BBC does a better job at covering the untouchable Mrs. Bill Clinton and our election politics.Earlier this month, Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin thought it was appropriate to attack Iraqi's Prime Minister publicly during a war.Hillary Clinton said on August 22nd,"I share Senator Levin's hope that the Iraqi parliament will replace Prime Minister Maliki with a less divisive and more unifying figure when it returns in a few weeks."Well, Maliki would have none if it. He called out the disgraceful Senators by name. He said, "Leaders like Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin have not experienced in their political lives the kind of differences we have in Iraq""When they give their judgment they have no knowledge of what reconciliation means."The next time you listen or read MSM, ask yourself whether they are talkin

The Editors at The Times continue on about Iraq and contribute with fuel to the fire during the "War of the Analogies."According to them:"Blaming the prime minister of Iraq, rather than the president of the United States, for the spectacular failure of American policy, is cynical politics, pure and simple. It is neither fair nor helpful in figuring out how to end America’s biggest foreign policy fiasco since Vietnam."Their closing two cents:"If Mr. Bush, whose decision to inject Vietnam into the debate over Iraq was bizarre, took the time to study the real lessons of Vietnam, he would not be so eager to lead America still deeper into the 21st century quagmire he has created in Iraq. Following his path will not rectify the mistakes of Vietnam, it will simply repeat them."Bizarre" they call it..."inject Vietnam" have they no shame? Do they just forget what is necessary to pump their trash out?I'm pretty sure the board hasn't been too pleased with Maliki in the recent past...have the

In the tense religious atmosphere of Malaysia, a cartoon of Jesus sparks outrage. US intelligence agencies are to release a report soon indicating doubts at Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki’s abilities to manage sectarian divisions. Hillary Clinton’s recent criticism of Maliki, according to Juan Cole, was unpresidential. In response to the documentary September Dawn, the Mormon Church “revisits its dark past” - an 1857 massacre in southern Utah. The LA Times reports on Giuliani’s youth and his years in President Reagan’s Justice Department. The headline says it all: “Atlanta Considers Banning Baggy Pants.” Edwards steps up his rhetoric against other Democratic candidates. Here’s Biden’s first campaign video from Iowa: Email this post...

It's time for him to go.. - revisited What me worry? By now you may have heard all the "pointing of fingers" between the US and Iraqi governments. One day the press is reporting that GW thinks Maliki...

Prime Minister Maliki lashed back at comments made by visiting Senator Levin who suggested a new government was needed to push for reconciliation. Maliki also expressed anger toward Ambassador Crocker who said “extremely disappointing” progress had been made to creating a viable government representing diverse interests. The Prime Minister said: “The Iraqi government was elected [...]

Nella conferenza stampa tenuta due giorni fa in Quebec, al termine di un vertice a tre con i leader del Messico e del Canada, si è potuta notare tutta la frustrazione del Presidente degli Stati Uniti, sotto pressione per gli scarsi risultati ottenuti fino a questo momento in Iraq. Non è un segreto infatti la data (esattamente metà Settembre) durante la quale la Casa bianca dovrà comunicare

Curfew has been imposed in Bangladesh after students and police clashed in the streets during a protest to end emergency rule and remove the military presence from the University of Dhaka campus. President Bush is distancing himself from Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki, claiming dissatisfactions with the Iraqi government’s ability to meet benchmarks, adding that it’s up to the Iraqi people to decide who controls their government. Hurricane Dean is still causing trouble in the Carribbean, while tropical storm spin offs and flooding continue to plague the midwest. In Myanmar, one of the world’s most oppressive countries, pro-democracy rallies against government controlled fuel price increases were held Wednesday. “Though our leaders had been arrested, we will continue with our movement. We will not fear any arrest or threat,” one of the protesters told the media. Topless fishing photos of Russian President Vladimir Putin, which appeared on the web last we

Bush Takes a Step Away From MalikiExcerpt:"When President Bush and Nuri Kamal al-Maliki stood side by side in Jordan last November, the president proclaimed the prime minister “the right guy for Iraq.”By Tuesday, that phrase had all but evaporated from Mr. Bush’s lexicon.Instead, Mr. Bush acknowledged “a certain level of frustration” with the Iraqi government’s failure to unify its warring ethnic factions. His comments at a meeting of North American leaders in Canada came just hours after the top American diplomat in Baghdad, Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, called political progress in Iraq “extremely disappointing” and warned that United States support for the Maliki government did not come with a “blank check.”"http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/world/middleeast/22cnd-maliki.html?hp

White House Defends Bush Comments After al-Maliki CriticismExcerpt:"The White House on Wednesday defended President Bush from criticism by Nouri al-Maliki after the embattled Iraqi prime minister lashed out at American lawmakers calling for a no-confidence vote on his regime."Prime Minister Maliki knows where the president stands," National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe told reporters.Johndroe said that after Bush's comments Tuesday in Canada, the White House had tried to make clear that Bush was not distancing himself from Maliki."http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294068,00.html

President Bush Participates in Joint Press Availability with Prime Minister Maliki of Iraq Joint Statement by the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Iraq, and Renewal in Iraq or In Focus: Global Diplomacy, Four Seasons Hotel Amman, Amman, Jordan, 9:43 A.M. (Local)PRESIDENT BUSH: Good morning. It's good to be in Amman. I first want to thank His Majesty King Abdullah for his gracious hospitality.Prime Minister Maliki and I just had a very productive meeting. This is the third time we've met since he took office six months ago, and with each meeting I'm coming to know him better.He's a strong leader who wants a free and democratic Iraq to succeed. The United States is determined to help him achieve that goal.I told the Prime Minister we're ready to make changes to better support the unity government of Iraq, and that certain key principles behind our strategy remain firm and they're fixed.First, we believe the success of Prime Minister Maliki's government is c

Charles Crain of TIME provides a fine example of msm "unbiased" reporting:"Maliki — taking a page from President Bush's political playbook — said that by wavering in its support for the Iraqi government, the Administration was emboldening terrorists. Insurgents might take such comments as a sign "that they have defeated the American Administration," Maliki said."You see, Bush doesn't actually believe in anything he says or does, it's all just part of his cynical "political playbook."To Crain et al, there is no truth to the reality in Iraq...only politics as usual.

Found this story through the Drudge Report.Headline:Give us Guns - and troops can go says, Iraqi leader....Nouri al-Maliki said the insurgency had been bloodier and prolonged because Washington had refused to part with equipment. If it released the necessary arms, US forces could "dramatically" cut their numbers in three to six months, he told The Times....When asked about the Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi's attack on Iraq's capital punishment laws, Mr al-Maliki cited the Italians' summary killing of Benito Mussolini and his stringing-up from a lamppost. Asked how long Iraq would require US troops, Mr al-Maliki said: "If we succeed in implementing the agreement between us to speed up the equipping and providing weapons to our military forces, I think that within three to six months our need for American troops will dramatically go down. That is on condition that there are real, strong efforts to support our military forces and equipping and arming them" ...Mr al-Ma

I have to say that I made a mistake and went and took the media at their word when i trashed Al-Maliki for telling us to get out. Thanks a bunch to one of my commenters Monica over at GrizzlyMama for bringing this to my attention.I recently published a post called "al-Maliki says Arm Us, Leave..." about the Prime Minister of Iraq saying that Bush wasn't giving enough support, supply Iraq with arms, and we can leave thank you very much. I made a mistake. According to Gateway Pundit all of it was lies and completely out of context. I'll give you a few quotes but I really suggest you go to the story and read it in it's entirety, it's ridiciulous, here are the quotes from Gateway:Yesterday, Western news outlets published shocking reports (via Memeorandum archives) on Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's press conference with reporters. The articles described a bitter and defiant man who was very upset with the assistance his country was receiving from the US. But, NOT ONE of the int

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told U.S. officials on Wednesday that the need for U.S. troops would go down if the process of arming and equipping the Iraqi forces would be sped up. He said the need for U.S. forces would go down in a matter of three to six months and called on the United States to show faith in his ability to lead."If we succeed in implementing the agreement between us to speed up the equipping and providing weapons to our military forces, I think that within three to six months our need for the American troops will dramatically go down. That's on the condition that there are real strong efforts to support our military forces and equipping them and arming them," Maliki said.Maliki defended his governments constitutional right to the death penalty after President Bush said that the execution of Saddam Hussein "looked like it was kind of a revenge killing". Condoleezza Rice's statement to the Senate that the Maliki administration was on "borrowed time" also drew attack