Harry Hope wrote:

From Reuters, 5/13/07:
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/washington/politics-usa-iraq-republicans.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Republican Senator Slams Iraqi Government

By REUTERS

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top-ranking Republican in the U.S. Senate on
Sunday expressed
frustration with the Iraqi government, saying Republicans were
``overwhelmingly disappointed'' with the lack of political progress.

``The Iraqi government is a huge disappointment,'' Senate Minority
Leader Mitch McConnell told CNN'S Late Edition on Sunday.

Blaming the victim.

``So far, they've not been able do anything they promised

...and the Empire has? We can't even get their electricity turned on. We
won't allow Iraqis to fix things, instead insisting on our no-bid
contractors, who consistently make things worse.

Disappointment indeed, but who is the biggest disappointment?

on the
political side,'' the Kentucky Republican said, citing the Iraqis'
failure to pass a new oil revenue bill,

Yeah, shame on them for not approving the theft of their oil!

hold local elections and
dismantle the former Baath Party of Saddam Hussein. ``It's a growing
frustration.''

``Republicans overwhelmingly feel disappointed about the Iraqi
government,'' he added.

McConnell spoke as the Senate is trying to approve funding for the
Iraq war with a compromise that President George W. Bush can sign. Bush
has threatened to veto a bill passed by the U.S. House of
Representatives that provides only enough money to continue combat for
two or three months.

McConnell said there was a growing sense of frustration across all
political divides in the U.S. Senate with failures of the Iraqi
government.

``I don't know what their problem is but this country has made an
enormous investment in giving the Iraqis a chance to have a normal
government after all of these years of Saddam Hussein and his
atrocities,'' he said.

Citing media reports, McConnell said some lawmakers in Iraq's
parliament wanted a vote to ask the United States to leave.

``I want to assure you, if they vote to ask us to leave, we'll be glad
to comply with their request,'' he said.

Fat chance! Here's hoping Parliament calls his bluff.

McConnell's comments came as a group linked to al Qaeda claimed in an
Internet message to have seized three U.S. soldiers in an ambush south
of Baghdad and a suicide truck bombing killed 50 people in the Kurdish
north.

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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Harry