IRAQI PRIME MINISTER BACKS OBAMA
Iraqi PM backs Obama troop exit plan
Saturday, 19 July 2008
(Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told a German magazine he supported prospective U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's proposal that U.S. troops should leave Iraq within 16 months.
In an interview with Der Spiegel released on Saturday, Maliki said he wanted U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq as soon as possible.
'U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes.'
It is the first time he has backed the withdrawal timetable put forward by Obama, who is visiting Afghanistan and is set to go to Iraq as part of a tour of Europe and the Middle East.
It looks like there’s a divergence of views
While political axes grind and skew the news
Perhaps we should pay attention to the Iraqi PM
Perhaps what HE wants is the point… ahem!
But if that doesn’t suit a neat bow on top
Of the Iraqi skull-fest Bush needs to stop
Then it’s counted out as the way ahead
Whether it means more American dead
Do Bush or Cheney really give a damn?
Didn’t they learn the lessons of Vietnam?
Get out of a mess just as soon as you can
Don’t demand more bases as part of the plan
The thing is over, at least for you.
Forget your bases and control too…
The Iraqis won’t wear it, they want you out
No matter how much you scream and shout
No matter how much arm-twisting you do now
The thing is over for your unholy cow
The stronger they get, the less they need you
The less leverage you have, the reasons are few...
To have you there behind their backs
Instigating new deaths and attacks
It’s time to leave them to re-create their land
Is there something there you don’t understand?
Iraqi prime minister says talks on security deal with U.S. are at an impasse
Friday, 13 June 2008
BAGHDAD: Iraq's negotiations with the United States on a security agreement governing America's long-term involvement in the country are at an impasse because America's demands infringe Iraq's sovereignty, the country's prime minister said Friday.
The comments were the first by the prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, in which he explicitly stated there is distance between the United States and the Iraqi government in the negotiations on the security agreement, which would authorize American forces and operations after a United Nations mandate expires at the end of the year.
In a meeting with newspaper editors in Jordan, Maliki said the current draft of the agreement was unacceptable. “The American version of the agreement infringes hugely on the sovereignty of Iraq and this is something that we cannot ever accept,” he said.
“Iraq rejects Washington's insistence on granting their forces immunity from Iraqi laws and courts,' he said. 'We reject Washington's demand to have a free hand in undertaking military operations without cooperation with the Iraqi government.' He added: 'We cannot give permission to the American forces independent right to arrest Iraqis or execute operations against terrorism. We cannot allow them to use the Iraqi skies and waters at all times.”
~ Saturday, December 15, 2003 ~
(On Saddam Hussein finally being found)
The news is good there’s no mistake
This time no danger, he’s not a fake
Autocratic rule will always fall
It sometimes takes time that is all
Remember Amin, Ceucescu, Honecker?
Remember Jaruzelski, Gottwald, the Shah?
Some you will, some you won?t
But wielding power, now they don’t
Dictators do fall in the end
By their own peoples’ hands
And win out with dignity and pride
Not because a foreign power commands
In this case he’s STILL gone
And for that we must be glad
For he WAS an awful man
But there will be no peace
Until the Iraqis are free
This is what we must understand
There must be dignity
And a freedom to choose
Perhaps even the Shi-ite way
And with occupiers out
And staying out
No longer to have their say
Sovereign nations need their pride
And will have it at any price
Let no prideful U.S. power
Think less will suffice
Saddam is gone
That is totally good
That does NOT mean
The coalition acted as it should
Get out now while you still can
You can’t control their fate
They don’t need further arrogance
Or need some childish hate
A new Iraq can now be born, free of Saddam
No, not perfect in every way…
But an Iraqi for Iraqis
And for Iraqis it must stay
By KANEIX
© 2008 KANEIX
(All rights reserved)
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