Fear not, Iraqis! Here Bush comes to save the day!

[BurtWorm]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/26/international/middleeast/26iraq.html?ei=5094&en=36a4a823e1bedaa9&hp=&ex=1125115200&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print


August 26, 2005

Bush Steps In as Charter Talks in Iraq Reach Breaking Point
By DEXTER FILKINS and JAMES GLANZ

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 25 - Talks over the Iraqi constitution reached a breaking point on Thursday, with a parliamentary session to present the document being canceled and President Bush personally calling one of the country's most powerful Shiite leaders in an effort to broker a last-minute deal.

Mr. Bush intervened when some senior Shiite leaders said they had decided to bypass their Sunni counterparts, as well as Iraqi lawmakers, and send the document directly to Iraqi voters for their approval.

The calls by Shiite leaders to ignore the Sunnis' request for changes to the draft constitution provoked threats from the Sunnis that they would urge their people to reject the document when it goes before voters in a national referendum in October.

At day's end, American officials in Washington declared that the Iraqis had made "substantial and real progress" toward a deal on the constitution. And senior Iraqi leaders said they would make a last-ditch effort on Friday to strike a deal.

But after so many days of fruitless negotiations, some senior political leaders here suggested that time had run out.

[Roland99]

1. When's he going to fly to Baghdad to fix what he broke?

The Remote Control President.

[elehhhhna]

2. Is he doing the 'Cabbage Patch' in that photo?

[KyndCulture]

3. *LOL*

I thought that was just me, glad someone else saw it too... hehehehe

[mtnester]

4. Here I come to Save the Day.....

always reminds me of Andy Kauffman in the saddest of ways...

:cry:

[Roland99]

6. Oh wow.

[gratuitous]

5. The headline promises, but the article doesn't deliver

It doesn't say a word about what the substance of Stupidhead's intervention was: Considering his political track record in the United States, how do we know he didn't tell the Shiites that if they can ram a constitution through an election with a plurality of votes in a popular votes, it's carte blanche for whatever they want to do?

That would certainly be in keeping with the way Bush has governed as the (ostensible) president of all the people.

Keep whoring, New York Times.

[MetaTrope]

7. If it was the same as his brokering with Dem congressman

then I reckon personal threats to their families were involved.