Bush says up to Iraq on whether to replace Maliki (Reuters)

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Bush says up to Iraq on whether to replace Maliki
Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:10PM EDT

MONTEBELLO, Quebec (Reuters) - U.S. President George
W. Bush said on Tuesday it was up to the Iraqi people
whether to replace Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's
government and urged him to do more to broker peace
between the warring sides.

Bush did not offer a direct endorsement of Maliki and
acknowledged the difficulties in achieving political goals
in Iraq. The U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker,
earlier on Tuesday said that progress was "extremely
disappointing."

"I think there's a certain level of frustration with the
leadership in general, inability to ... come together to
get, for example, an oil revenue law passed or provincial
elections," Bush told reporters after meetings with the
leaders of Canada and Mexico.

-snip-

The chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services
Committee, Carl Levin, just back from a visit to Iraq, on
Monday urged that Maliki's government be voted out of
power because they have been unable to reach
compromises on key policy issues.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN2143895820070821

[frogcycle]

1. so he steps away from the mess entirely

now it's the Iraqi people's fault for having "elected" him and up to them to deal with it.

I figure the odds are about 99 to 1 that if "the Iraqi people" decide to replace him it won't be via elections

And he'll just declare them all to be too stupid to recognize a good thing when he handed it to them

[rodeodance]

2. guess we can't go in and invade our own puppit