Friday, January 12, 2007

Iraqi government offers only lukewarm support for Bush plan

The one thing that Democrats and Republicans have agreed upon when it comes to Iraq policy is that in order for any plan to be successful it must have the enthusiastic support of the Iraqi government and people.
An article in today's New York Times, indicates the support for the plan announced earlier this week by President Bush is anything but enthusiastic:

The Iraqi leader, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, failed to appear at a news conference and avoided any public comment. He left the government’s response to an official spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, who gave what amounted to a backhanded approval of the troop increase and emphasized that Iraqis, not Americans, would set the future course in the war. Mr. Dabbagh said that the government’s objective was to secure the eventual withdrawal of American troops, and that for that to be possible there had to be security for Iraqis. "If this can be achieved by increasing either Iraqi or multinational forces," he added, “the government, for sure, will not stand against it.”


It appears critics of the president's plan have good reason to be concerned.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

We can only hope the Iraqi government, as poor as it appears to be, will finally tell our war-mongering president to get our troops out of Iraq. Then the damn fool will want to bomb Iran or someone else he doesn't agree with.
Anyone that can continue to support this war and this presidential decision has to have a screw loose, and obviously none of their family in Iraq.