Iraq leaders put off govt talks despite US pressure

[leftchick]

another Condifailure....

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2006/April/focusoniraq_April24.xml§ion=focusoniraq

BAGHDAD - Iraqi leaders shelved talks on Tuesday on forming a government despite a warning from US and British leaders against further delays, as rebel violence continued to claim lives across the country.

Just hours after US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her British counterpart Jack Straw left Iraq on Monday after an unprecedented two-day visit, 10 worshippers were blown up by a suicide car bomber near a Shiite mosque in Baghdad.

The attack was reminiscent of a bombing of a Shiite shrine in the city of Samarra in February that triggered a wave of sectarian killings as Shiites launched reprisal attacks against Sunnis, leaving hundreds dead.

At least 38 other worshippers were wounded in Monday’s attack near the Al-Shurufi mosque in Baghdad’s northeastern neighbourhood of al-Shaab.

[salin]

1. No probs.... its *not* a civil war - so says Dick.

[MichiganVote]

2. Refusing democracy are they? So 14 soldiers who died in the past 4 days

died for what? So they could sit on their ass?

[atreides1]

3. No

Those 14 troops died for nothing, just like the 2300+ that died before them. They gave up their lives, not to keep America free, but to make Bush feel like a "man", because evidently Laura just
isn't up to the task!

[leftchick]

4. well there are those war profits

cheney and the rest of the BFEE are raking in the dough from blood.

[acmavm]

5. I guess the days of being able to push the Iraqis may be

coming to an end. Who'd 'ave ever thunk it?

[saigon68]

6. THEY WILL JUST KILL A FEW OF THEM

And get a new set of Quislings to contol like Puppets

[LynnTheDem]

7. And in Rice's 2-day visit, 17 US troops were killed in Iraq.

So how's that "GOOD NEWS" coming, Rice?

[Roland99]

8. How dare they act like they're sovereign!

[rocktivity]

9. And what business does the US have pressuring them at all?

Iraq IS a sovereign nation, you know. :evilgrin:

But this may be a simple matter of the Iraqi leaders realizing that the more they appear to be puppets on Bush's strings, the more the civil war will escalate.


:headbang:
rocknation

[Owlet]

10. Good point

Here's the Hartford Courant's take on it.

<http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-jafari.artapr04,0,1120246.story?coll=hc-headlines-editorials>