McCain Optimistic About Iraq's Future

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Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) emerged from a meeting with Iraq's president Saturday, saying all Americans wanted the democratic experiment in Iraq to succeed and hoped politicians here would quickly form a new government. McCain, an Arizona Republican who backed the U.S.-invasion, headed a delegation that included Sen. Russell Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat who opposed the war in Iraq. Feingold did not speak, but nodded in agreement as McCain spoke about the future of Iraq.

"The American people, no matter what party they are associated with, want the experiment of democracy to succeed," said McCain. The McCain delegation was in the country just four days after another powerful group of American politicians visited to press for the quick formation of a new government.

President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, has formed a coalition of with Sunni and secular politicians a second term for Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a move that deepened the stalemate more than three months after the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections. The McCain delegation was to meet al-Jaafari later Saturday. On Tuesday, Sen. John Warner , a Virginia Republican who is chairman of the Armed Services Committee, Michigan Sen. Carl Levin , the ranking Democrat on the panel, delivered a tough message to Talabani and al-Jaafari.

They warned that Americans were running out of patience with delays in forming Iraq's government and could force U.S. leaders to decrease troop strength. Kurdish, Sunni and some secular leaders argue al-Jaafari is too divisive a figure and accuse him of doing too little to contain a wave of reprisal violence triggered by the Feb. 22 bombing of a revered Shiite shrine in Samarra. The Shiite United Iraqi Alliance is itself divided over al-Jaafari, nominating him by just one vote last month. At a community sports center Saturday, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad told Iraqi athletes the country was at a crossroads. The main challenge was "to overcome the strife that threatens to rip apart Iraq," he said.
"As I speak Iraqi leaders are struggling to form a government of national unity. This is a critical step for the future of Iraq, it's a defining moment," Khalilzad said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060325/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
NO MCCAIN americans were not for an experiment of democracy with people's lives
They were told Iraq was a threat now it was an experiment in democracy

[iconoclastic cat]

1. Headline: McCain has surgery to look more like George W. Bush

Beginning with a hamster pelt for hair.

[rodeodance]

2. McCain is hugging bush too much and catching the disease!

[Dragon Turtle]

3. Is McCain really that deluded or a liar?

or is he both?

I dread the thought of the possibility of a McCain presidency.

[cantstandbush]

4. I am not optimistic about McCain's future. As Kevin Phillips has

said, he couldn't even support the new John McCain he sees now. i will never vote for McCain. At one time I thought I would.

[FloridaPat]

5. I'm optimistic too. But not in this century. With the US out of there

their chances of getting unity are greatly increased.

[Ilsa]

6. Sometimes I wonder if that cancer has spread to his brain.

I don't want that. I wish the Senator good health. But his behavior is so unbelieveable.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. Dig hole. Insert head. Cover. Announce opitimism.

[KharmaTrain]

8. Remember "We Aren't Into Nation Building"

This is the part of the "Vietnam" deja vu that can be the most maddening. It was obvious then that the moment we withdrew our forces that the South Vietnamese were so corrupt and inept their government would, and did, fall. The same is playing out here and in even more ominous.

There's no way to win this game anymore since without a massive U.S. military presence any "government" in Baghdad will fold like a deck of cards before the many militias and other interests that see the existing power vaccuum and positioning themselves for the eventual end of the American occupation. When these shitheads scream about "no timetable" it's pure bullshit. Unless there's some secret document that shows plans to make Iraq the 51st state (and I know about the permanent bases) eventually American forces will leave and those who remain will then take matters into their own hands with the U.S. having ZERO influence on the outcome.

The corruption and ineptitude by this regime in this invasion and occupation is the greatest disgrace ever to be visited upon this country...nothing comes close. Never have the people been lied to, deceived and screwed than by this Repugnican misadministration, it's enablers in the House & Senate (like McCain...Maverick, my ass) and the corporate media. They ALL have blood on their hands and I for certin will never forget and won't hesitate to keep that in their faces every chance I get.

[Hubert Flottz]

9. He can't tell a kurd from a turd!

He hugged the biggest Turd you ever saw!

EDIT...Bush hinted that McCain might have even hugged around on Ho Chi Minh. I'm starting to believe the stuff Bush was saying about McCain during the 2000 campaign. Bush claimed that McCain gave important military information to the enemy in Nam!

[DRoseDARs]

10. McCain optimistic about Iraq & I'm optimistic about my bowel movements...

...they're both going to turn to shit. :shrug:

[teryang]

11. Who started the strife ripping Iraq apart?

"the tyranny of the sultan for a hundred years causes less damage than one years tyranny exercised by the subject's against one another." Mohammed al Ghazali

McCain doesn't know shit. He's living in a dreamworld of militaristic propaganda. He was raised in it, he was educated in it, and he spent the formative years of his adult life in it.

He's filled with anger and frustration from his childhood and his Vietnam experience, which was in vain.

He's a brave man, personable in public only. He has above average psycho-motor and communication skills. He is not a qualified strategist nor a statesman. In short, he's dangerous.