This Week Panel: Iraq War

[Monkeyman]

Run time: 05:23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9OBef57zNo   Posted on YouTube: April 30, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: May 01, 2007 By DU Member: Monkeyman Views on DU: 320

 
In Case You Missed It

[whistle]

1. Did I hear George Will admit that republicans will loose credibility

... as the party of foreign policy if Iraq government under Maliki collapses before the 2008 election? It is almost at the point of collapse right now. I doubt if Maliki adjourns for the summer that he will have a parliament to return to next fall.

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Al-Maliki: No wall in Baghdad community By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writer
Sun Apr 22, 5:51 PM ET

CAIRO, Egypt - Iraq's prime minister said Sunday that he has ordered a halt to the U.S. military construction of a barrier separating a Sunni enclave from surrounding Shiite areas in Baghdad after fierce criticism over the project at home.

The challenge to the U.S. initiative came as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki began a regional tour to shore up support from mostly Sunni Arab nations for his Shiite-dominated government as sectarian violence persists despite a nearly 10-week-old security crackdown.

The U.S. military announced last week that it was building a three-mile-long and 12-foot-tall concrete wall in Azamiyah, a Sunni stronghold in northern Baghdad whose residents have often been the victims of retaliatory mortar attacks by Shiite militants following bombings usually blamed on Sunni insurgents.

U.S. and Iraqi officials defended plans for the barrier as an effort to protect the neighborhood, but residents and Sunni leaders complained it was a form of discrimination that would isolate the community. A large protest was scheduled for Monday in the area.

In his first public comments on the issue, al-Maliki said Sunday that he had ordered the construction to stop.

"I oppose the building of the wall and its construction will stop," al-Maliki said during a joint news conference with the secretary-general of the Arab League. "There are other methods to protect neighborhoods, but I should point out that the goal was not to separate, but to protect."
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070422/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_neighborhood_barrier

[Jack Rabbit]

3. I respect George Will and have for thirty or so years

I may not agree with his basic principles, but he calls it as he sees it, even when the Republican establishment wants to put out a different message.

Right now, he sees the Iraq war as a failed project (regardless of whether it was a good or bad idea in the first place) and if there are still American troops in Iraq in November 2008, the GOP is going to pay a heavy price for Bush's sins.

That's reality, and empires don't have the ability to make it anything other than what it is.

[Redstone]

2. Wow, 4 people TALKING, not shouting! You never see THAT on the rightwing shows, do you?

Just an observation.

Redstone