John Derbyshire at NRO puts forward what will probably be the standard neo-con/pro-war response to the fact that the leader of Iraq supports the sooner-rather-than-later withdrawal of American forces:
We should tell Maliki, loudly and in public, that he owes his job to us, and that further prosecution of our military operations in his country will be conducted with regard only to U.S. interests, as determined in consensus by our established domestic political processes. And if he doesn’t like that, he can go to hell.
In other words, remind him that he’s an American puppet and should just forget any idea that we actually meant that crap about democracy in Iraq.
Yea, that’ll work.
July 21st, 2008 at 5:03 pm
I’m glad I left the party before I started thinking like that.
July 21st, 2008 at 5:18 pm
And I always thought Iraq was a sovereign nation.
July 21st, 2008 at 7:20 pm
So much for liberating Iraq…
It appears the only thing that has been liberated is the oil.
July 22nd, 2008 at 7:48 am
Kevin- The oil may have been liberated however, the Iraqis are not allowing the US to have it all. Didn’t they say that they are awarding some of those contracts to countries other than the US?
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:10 pm
ah yes, the neocon theory of Empire…invade, occupy, nation build and then, hey you owe us!!!