Not ones to be bothered with the machinations of other countries’ political processes, Senators Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin of Michigan have called for the ouster of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who was elected to that post by the Iraqi Assembly, because of the ineffectualness of that same legislative body over which he presides.
This is amazing. Critics of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, like Clinton and Levin have based their reasoning, in part, on the hubris of imperialism, so al-Maliki was quite justified in firing back at his U.S. critics by saying, “There are American officials who consider Iraq as if it were one of their villages…” And he called out Clinton and Levin specifically in this retort.
And about this charge of ineffectualness? Are politician’s honestly that self-absorbed that they can’t see the irony of their words and deeds? Please don’t misunderstand, an ineffectual legislative body, particularly with this current group up on Capitol Hill is not necessarily a bad thing but members of a group that have an 18% approval rating might want to keep those rocks in their back pocket for the time being.
Click here for story on Al-Maliki
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070827/news_1n27iraq.html
This is amazing. Critics of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, like Clinton and Levin have based their reasoning, in part, on the hubris of imperialism, so al-Maliki was quite justified in firing back at his U.S. critics by saying, “There are American officials who consider Iraq as if it were one of their villages…” And he called out Clinton and Levin specifically in this retort.
And about this charge of ineffectualness? Are politician’s honestly that self-absorbed that they can’t see the irony of their words and deeds? Please don’t misunderstand, an ineffectual legislative body, particularly with this current group up on Capitol Hill is not necessarily a bad thing but members of a group that have an 18% approval rating might want to keep those rocks in their back pocket for the time being.
Click here for story on Al-Maliki
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070827/news_1n27iraq.html
The image above is of a confronation during Shay's Rebellion, a violent episode between the end of the Revolutionary War and the Constitutional Congress and which epitomized this country's own struggle with the logic and practicalness of being a confederacy vs. a fully unified nation.
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