Bush Plays 'Politics' With Iraqi Withdrawl To Help McCain

Decisions_Are_Mine · #1 (**permalink**) 09-23-2008, 07:28 PM

The media should quickly jump on this. It is immoral that this idiot Bush and looney McCain would play politics with lives of soldiers just to help McCain get elected. Imagine how soldiers would feel knowing their commander is delaying their withdrawl from Iraq and allowing them to risk getting killed just to help get his clone elected. This is crazy! But some of you still want 4 more years of this.

Here's a few quotes:

Quote:

Last July, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said U.S. troops should be out of Iraq “as soon as possible” and endorsed Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) withdrawal plan. Obama “talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right time frame for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes,” Maliki told Der Spiegel magazine.

Quote:

Why did Bush go back on his word? A source tells ThinkProgress that White House communications staff were concerned that Maliki’s endorsement of the 2010 time line would damage Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) presidential campaign. Indeed, during an interview with Iraqi television last week (according to an Open Source Center translation), Maliki suggested that the U.S. presidential elections played a role:

Quote:

Actually, the final date was really the end of 2010 and the period between the end of 2010 and the end of 2011 was for withdrawing the remaining troops from all of Iraq, but they asked for a change [in date] due to political circumstances related to the [U.S] domestic situation so it will not be said to the end of 2010 followed by one year for withdrawal but the end of 2011 as a final date.

LINK:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/23/...h-mccain-iraq/

lavell12 · #2 (**permalink**) 09-23-2008, 08:58 PM

I don't think McCain is the candidate who asked the Iraqis to stop the withdraw until the election ended. But I could be wrong

not to mention that is a left wing looooooney source. Like ThinkProgress has a source inside the WH.

Vote4Future · #3 (**permalink**) 09-24-2008, 06:49 AM

Another stupid thread!

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