Baghdad’s ability to sell members like Coleman, R-Minn., and Chambliss, R-Ga., on the war effort is critical if the Iraqi government wants U.S. troops to stay. Coleman in recent months has become deeply skeptical of the president’s decision to send additional troops to Iraq and says patience on the war in general is limited.
Coleman, Chambliss and Sen. John Sununu, R-N.H., who met separately with Saleh, will be up for re-election next year — facing voters who have grown tired of a war in its fifth year and that has killed more than 3,380 troops. While Republicans have been reluctant to intervene, many say President Bush has until September to tell if the troop buildup in Iraq is working before they demand another approach.
Ah, Norm, the breeze is blowing and you're drifting right along with it, aren't you? It's odd how it took this long for you to become concerned, though. Up until just recently you were one of those ventriloquist dummies who said that leaving Iraq meant that the "terrorists" win.
When this report talks about "Baghdad's ability to sell" the 'surge' to fools like Norm Coleman, they really mean the Bush Administration's ability to keep marginally loyal Republicans from bolting. So (Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham) Saleh just decided to meet with a bunch of nervous Republican Congressdroids on his own, eh? The Deputy Prime Minister of a puppet Prime Minister who has virtually no power and whose paycheck and position ultimately is in the hands of the Bush Administration gets a crazy idea to travel to the U.S. and talk to politicians...but mostly Republican politicians. The minute Saleh stops doing the bidding of the Bush Administration is when Saleh loses his job or when his security "slips up" and he takes his place at the morgue. But... but.. he's Iraqi! It's just a coincidence that everything he says sounds like it was approved by Bush ahead of time. Wow, I'm certainly fooled.
Norm, face it: your master's only Iraq plan was to install Challabi as some kind of dictator in a sham election and have Challabi act as a U.S.-controlled puppet. And you went along with this because to think independently means you lose your spot on the winning team. So, Norm, if you are no longer taking marching orders from Cheney, then who is your new master? And if you still are Cheney's ventriloquist dummy, then what's up with the "nervous" act? Is something going to happen between now and September that suddenly makes Cheney less of a genius hero for you?
Norm Coleman had better figure out before September whether he's going to betray his masters in the White House or his constituency in Minnesota. This choreographed act with Saleh doesn't gain him any cover at all.
It's funny how his "patience" on the war is limited by impending election, though. It's almost as if he didn't have any confidence in his master at all, and is confused because they stopped sending him Talking Points or something.
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