Iraq
(Boston Globe) "A new congressional analysis shows the Iraq war is now costing taxpayers almost $2 billion a week." (20% more than last year.)
(WaPo) "The Baghdad Police College, ($75 million) hailed as crucial to U.S. efforts to prepare Iraqis to take control of the country's security, was so poorly constructed that feces and urine rained from the ceilings in student barracks."
(Stars and Stripes) The story of a police station that has been rebuilt for the third time. “This is the third station we’ve built there. The first two were blown up and this one’s going to get blown up too.”
(NYTimes) The US military is echoing Washington complaints about the Maliki government. (Agreed, but what's the alternative? Hold elections now and get a very "effective" Sadr? Put in a dictator?- mike)
(AP) The Saudis are builing a 560 mile border fence with Iraq "another sign of growing alarm that Sunni-Shiite strife could spill over and drag Iraq's neighbors into its civil conflict.
And, why do I have to go to the international version of the NYTimes to see a headline on US soldiers who died serving their country?
(AP) 40 tortured bodies in Baghdad, and bombs all over the city. (Reuters) 80+ killed throughout the country.
(WaPo) "The Baghdad Police College, ($75 million) hailed as crucial to U.S. efforts to prepare Iraqis to take control of the country's security, was so poorly constructed that feces and urine rained from the ceilings in student barracks."
(Stars and Stripes) The story of a police station that has been rebuilt for the third time. “This is the third station we’ve built there. The first two were blown up and this one’s going to get blown up too.”
(NYTimes) The US military is echoing Washington complaints about the Maliki government. (Agreed, but what's the alternative? Hold elections now and get a very "effective" Sadr? Put in a dictator?- mike)
(AP) The Saudis are builing a 560 mile border fence with Iraq "another sign of growing alarm that Sunni-Shiite strife could spill over and drag Iraq's neighbors into its civil conflict.
And, why do I have to go to the international version of the NYTimes to see a headline on US soldiers who died serving their country?
(AP) 40 tortured bodies in Baghdad, and bombs all over the city. (Reuters) 80+ killed throughout the country.
posted by mikevotes at
8:39 AM
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Re: Maliki
Isn't this the second Iraqi prime minister we (U.S.) has had problems with? Wasn't there a sort-lived PM before him that we stamped as unacceptable and sent the Iraqi parliment back for a do-over?
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-epm, at 11:02 AM
Yeah, the one before Maliki. Jaafari. He was tossed overboard for two reasons. He had no power base, and thus, no real way to influence, but more importantly, he was taking some steps against the US, most notably, firing the DoD's pet al-Rubaie from his National Security Advisor post.
When Maliki came in Al-Rubai magically returned to that post which he has held under different names since the invasion.
The rela problem with Maliki as far as I can see, is not really that he is incapable, etc,(he's as good as we're going to get,) it's that he refuses to seriously crack down on Sadr or the SCIRI. He'll pick off some of the renegade Mahdhi units, but he refuses to go after any one of Iran's points of influence.
So, he's termed "ineffective" and has to go.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 3:55 PM
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