Al-Maliki calls Bush's surge plan a "FABULOUS success"

[Bluebear]

Fabulous, eh? Yeah, that sounds like a spontaneous endorsement, what with using George's favoright adjective and all.

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...Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki assured President Bush that the three-day-old plan was a "fabulous success," according to an account of the conversation released by the prime minister's office. Speaking by secure video link-up from Baghdad, Maliki also told Bush that officials will be "firm in dealing with any side that breaks the law, regardless" of their sect.

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070217/REPOSITORY/702170393/1013/48HOURS

[maddezmom]

1. another translation: dazzling success

Two days of relative calm in the capital prompted Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to declare a "dazzling success" in the security clampdown, as officials reported an 80 percent drop in violence.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/20022007/20/mixed-welcome-baghdad-surge.html

he must get sick of eating crow :eyes:

[xchrom]

2. BOOM! what was that? -- oh the FABULOUS sound of the surge.

[rfranklin]

3. Remember George and Laura's "fabulous" year? It was 2001...

With the stench of 9/11 still in our nostrils and searing our brains, George Bush declared that the year had been "fabulous" for himself and his "lump" of a wife.

[saigon68]

8. She's not a lump she's a TURD

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. 'fabulous' as in 'fabled' as in 'made up' (n/t)

[Hubert Flottz]

5. They've probably given Al-Maliki some Exxon/Halliburton stock

so he'd be for the surge.

[liberal renegade]

6. so the car bomb

that blew up today and killed 11 pepople is part of that sucess?

[bklyncowgirl]

7. It may be good for him--we get rid of the Sunnis for him.

We go after the Sunnis. Sure we'd like to go after the Shiites but the leaders have somehow sort of disappeared and everyone's gone to ground. No problem. They'll be back once we declare victory.

I'm sure Mr. Maliki likes that just fine.

[pampango]

10. You are right about the Shittes being able and willing to play a

waiting game. After a few of their "leaders" were arrested, the rest can disappear until things cool off. In the long run the Shiites will control the government.

On the other hand, while I can understand why the Sunnis attack our troops (both for "patriotic resistance" and selfish <"we used to control things and would like to again"> reasons), I don't understand why they have been bombing Shiite civilians and mosques apparently trying to provoke a civil war. I mean the Shiites are 60% of the population, while the Sunnis are 20%. There may be some mentality that Sunnis are superior and should govern regardless of population numbers. I have heard that that is a common attitude among Sunni Muslims. Unless the Sunni Iraqis can involve the Sunni governments in other countries in the region in the conflict, they seem destined to suffer at the hands of the Shiite government.

[TheWatcher]

9. Yes, It was a fabulous success

It was almost TWO DAYS before the slaughter began anew.

:sarcasm: