Dear George "doofus" Allen. Read this: ME Deadline Looms without Deal!

[flpoljunkie]

Allen is on THIS WEEK with Chuck Hagel, and has the same "tutored to answer by advisors" look of Dubya. Hagel just said, The dam has broke on this policy." Of course, his strategy would not the same as Feingold's--a timeline or deadline. But, what is it Hagel? He really did not say--other than we must not leave Iraq "destabilized." Hate to tell you Hagel, but that will be the case whenever we leave Iraq. Doofus Allen just gave the old "we can't cut and run" bullsh*t line.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4170710.stm

Iraq deadline looms without deal

-The sharing of Iraq's oil revenues is still under discussion

-Iraq's deadlocked communities appear no closer to agreeing a new constitution with fewer than 36 hours remaining until the deadline for its completion.

-Officials are being forced to discuss a further delay, or even the dramatic option of dissolving parliament.

-Shia, Sunni and Kurdish teams have been unable to agree on key issues including federalism, oil and the role of Islam.

An original deadline last week was shifted to midnight this Monday (2000 GMT) when no agreement was reached.

"If the text is not handed to the national assembly by the deadline, one choice is to task for another one-week extension," the prime minister's spokesman, Leith Kubba, told reporters.

"Or... the national assembly would be dissolved and the government becomes a caretaker government."

Correspondents say there appears to be little appetite for fresh elections, so an extension appears the more likely outcome if the deadline is not met for the second time.