Time for Iraqi self-determination
Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
05/07/07
The Bush administration and Congress have put too much faith in governments — the U.S. as well as the Iraqi — to remedy the chaos in Iraq. To keep the pressure on the administration for eventual U.S. troop withdrawals, the Democrats have already begun to blame the Iraqi government for not meeting benchmarks for progress and are threatening to include them in legislation. Some congressional Republicans, sensing another electoral disaster in 2008, are beginning to mimic such Democratic arguments. Although the time is not yet ripe for a congressionally required schedule for troop withdrawal to override a presidential veto, the time for blaming the Iraqis and attempting to impose benchmarks will soon arrive...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1964
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
by Ivan Eland
05/07/07
The Bush administration and Congress have put too much faith in governments — the U.S. as well as the Iraqi — to remedy the chaos in Iraq. To keep the pressure on the administration for eventual U.S. troop withdrawals, the Democrats have already begun to blame the Iraqi government for not meeting benchmarks for progress and are threatening to include them in legislation. Some congressional Republicans, sensing another electoral disaster in 2008, are beginning to mimic such Democratic arguments. Although the time is not yet ripe for a congressionally required schedule for troop withdrawal to override a presidential veto, the time for blaming the Iraqis and attempting to impose benchmarks will soon arrive...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1964
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
rudkla - 8. Mai, 15:38
