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The editors of the New York Times write: "President Bush's news conference yesterday with Prime Minister Nouri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq had an even greater than usual sense of unreality about it, with Mr. Bush insisting that Mr. Maliki is 'the right guy for Iraq' and that American troops will stay 'until the job is complete,' while Mr. Maliki asserted that his country is a democracy and he is not a captive of Shiite militias."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120106L.shtml



Talks on Iraq Produce No Major Shift

President Bush and Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, met yesterday for the first time since sectarian killings in Iraq surged to record levels, but offered no new blueprint for quelling the chaos, thwarting the hopes of those pushing for a dramatic shift in US policy.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120106M.shtml

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Bush is irrelevant

The Price of Liberty
by Michael Gaddy

12/06

President George W. Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki met in Jordan to discuss the steadily deteriorating situation in Iraq; neither has faced the reality that as far as controlling future events in Iraq are concerned, both are irrelevant. Bush, like many other factional leaders in Iraq, has his own militia, arguably no longer the largest, but is in the unenviable position of being the one all the others see as occupiers and targets of opportunity. Prime Minister al-Maliki has nothing but his status as a puppet for the most hated entity currently involved in the debacle that is Iraq. In reality, Bush lost whatever control of events he had in Iraq somewhere between 'Mission Accomplished' and 'Bring Them On'...

http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/06/12/11/gaddy.htm



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