Iraqi lawmakers: Send more troops, money, and leave us alone

While President Bush demands funding for his war without any type of benchmarks for progress, his reasoning for the continued occupation gets stupider and stupider. At this point, his reasoning for staying appears to be solely “Screw you, I’m President.”

Because, face it, they don’t even try to make up reasons to stay now. There is really just one reason the U.S. will stay in Iraq through Bush’s term – because he and the Iraqi “government” are holding us hostage there.

Iraqi parliament speaker slams U.S. officials over criticism of its summer break plans

Iraq’s maverick parliament speaker on Wednesday rejected U.S. criticism of the 275-seat legislature over its summer break plans, saying it amounted to unacceptable interference in Iraqi affairs as Vice President Dick Cheney was expected to take up the issue during a visit to Baghdad. …

… In a barb at the Bush administration, he said those behind the criticism of Iraq’s parliament would make better use of their time trying to counter criticism by Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who is leading a campaign against U.S. President George W. Bush’s handling of the war in Iraq.

“You had better try and control Nancy Pelosi rather than Mahmoud al-Mashhadani,” the speaker said. …

… “Certainly taking a two-month vacation will have an effect on passing some important laws,” Mahmoud Othman, a Kurdish lawmaker, said last week. “We can stay if we feel that this is very important, but I think that the worries by the congressmen are premature. Moreover, they themselves take vacation.”

Control your women, stay out of our business, and keep sending your troops here to die. This is what the Iraqi “government” is demanding of the U.S. More than that, however, this is the culmination of Bush’s and PNAC’s grand plans for world domination. This is what years and years of master planning has created – a place for U.S. troops to die in a nation wracked by civil war, where the government has no respect whatsoever for the U.S.

At very least, the image of Iraqi’s waving ink-stained fingers won’t declare shouts of “victory!” from war cheerleaders. Of course, it’s pretty likely that even the Iraqis who waved those fingers had no reason to believe that their government, or the U.S. government would do a damn thing to improve the situation.

It just takes a look at Afghanistan to see the future of Iraq. The nation will be in turmoil for generations now, as Bush and team desperately try to abide by the wishes of Iraqi politicians – which is to just keep sending live bodies, money, and then stay out of their business. And they have more right to make those demands then the U.S. had to invade them in the first place.

–WKW

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