Posted by
Snooper on Saturday, August 18, 2007 8:01:17 AM
As Q&O says, all the more reason to like Petraeus!!
Damien McElroy / Telegraph:
Iraqi leader tells Bush: Get Gen Petraeus out
— Relations between the top United States general in Iraq and Nouri
al-Maliki, the country's prime minister, are so bad that the Iraqi
leader made a direct appeal for his removal to President George W Bush.
— Although the call was rejected …
Discussion: The Atlantic Online,
SWJ Blog,
QandO,
The Garlic,
Don Surber,
DownWithTyranny!,
Cliff Schecter,
Outside The Beltway,
TalkLeft,
Liberty Street,
Marine Corps Times HOME and
INTEL DUMP 
From Q&O
The
deal, as has been written about elsewhere, is the Sunnis must join the
armed forces to become armed. If that's a problem for Maliki, he needs
to find a new job. As Odierno points out, there are plenty of arms out
there already in the hands of the Sunnis groups and tribes. His
priority is to ensure they're pointed at AQI and not the CF.
Don Surber
But there is hope for Democrats. Both the Marine Times and the London Daily Telegraph report that the Iraqi prime minister wants President Bush to recall Gen. David Petraeus. The Telegraph reported: Gen Petraeus admitted that the relationship was stormy, saying: “We have not pulled punches with each other.”
Bush will fire Petraeus right after the Tampa Bay Devil Rays win the pennant.
Hat tip: Lucianne.com.
LOL!!
Moron Matthew Yglesias
Maybe if the Prime Minister of Iraq doesn't like our commanding general in Iraq and wants us to stop arming Sunni groups, but the US government thinks our commanding general is a smart guy and we want to intensify the arming of Sunni groups that we ought to step back, take a deep breath, and decide to leave Iraq to the Iraqis.
Intel Dump
Tonight, the AP reports
that Gen. David Petraeus and Amb. Ryan Crocker have been taking Iraqi
prime minister Nouri al-Maliki out to the woodshed a bit. And
apparently, as you might imagine for a grown man who's a head of state,
Maliki's not exactly pleased with the thumping he's been getting from
the two top U.S. officials in Iraq. According to the AP:
Here
is the bottom line. Maliki needs to STFU and get over himself. He has
had LOTS and LOTS of time and hasn't produced. He needs to stop
whining. GWB told him no. End of story.
PERIOD! DOT. COM.