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Quote Of The Day

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Bush, Foreign Policy, Iraq, McCain, Quotes

“I think the American people have had enough of inflexibility and stubbornness in national security policy.”
- McCain foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann on how Obama is like…Bush?

I guess Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Malki is like Bush too since he’s insisting on a timetable?

Ahh, politics…


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2 Responses to “Quote Of The Day”

  1. Jimmy the Dhimmi Says:
    July 16th, 2008 at 2:04 pm

    UPDATE:

    The BBC reports that Maliki’s words were mistranslated, and a timetable for withdrawal was on the agenda during negotiations.

    The prime minister was widely quoted as saying that in the negotiations with the Americans on a Status of Forces Agreement to regulate the US troop presence from next year,”the direction is towards either a memorandum of understanding on their evacuation, or a memorandum of understanding on a timetable for their withdrawal”…There is only one problem. It is not what Mr Maliki actually said.

    Besides, at this point the war in Iraq is essentially over. All Mission goals will probably be accomplished by the end of this year when all benchmarks are met (currently we are 15/18) and all Iraqi provinces will be turned over. “Timetables” when victory has been achieved are administrative , rather than political or military. “How long does it take to move all your crap out of here now that we don’t need it”, is not the same as, “this war is unwinnable, this war is lost, We cannot defeat the insurgents, let’s cut our losses and get the f#$k out of here!”

  2. Jimmy the Dhimmi Says:
    July 16th, 2008 at 2:15 pm

    * a timetable for withdrawal was NOT on the agenda.

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