Sen. McConnell to Pres. Bush: Iraqi parliament is “The Decider”
Matt Gunterman May 14th, 2007
I was in the process of moving into a new apartment on Sunday (it’s super, thanks for asking) and so didn’t get a chance to watch Senator Mitch McConnell on CNN’s Late Edition, but our beloved-by-no-one senator did manage to get himself featured on DailyKos for what he said there.
Specifically, this quote:
“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.
I’m sort of astonished myself. Did Mitch McConnell just tell us all that the Iraqi parliament is the determining force — The Decider — on a matter so crucial to our nation’s security (so saith the Bush administration).
I mean, seriously, listen to what the man said. We’ve been fighting this war to, take your pick, oust Saddam/bring democracy to the Middle East/defeat Al Qaeda/to keep the terrorists occupied in Iraq so they don’t swim across the ocean and get us here at home.
So, Senator McConnell, you have just told us that you believe that, even if it will be as disastrous to our national security as the Bush administration says it will be, you will get our military forces out of Iraq on the whim of the Iraqi parliament, which you have spent the last week calling a bunch of stupid idiots. No matter what the president says or what his generals say, you believe the determining factor is the Iraqi parliament. No matter what.
In other words, Senator McConnell, you believe that the Iraqi parliament has more say over the direction of this nation’s national security than the Democrats that the American people put in control of Congress last year. You will obey the wishes of the Iraqis, but you deride the will of the American people via the Democrats they elected.
Is that a “moronic birds of a feather (U.S. Republicans & Iraqi parliament) stick together” sort of philosophy on your part?
- Iraq War , Mitch McConnell , TV Interviews
- Comments(5)
As the invaders of Iraq, it would be irresponsible not to set the terms for leaving no matter of whether they want us to leave.
Those terms should include a stable government. If we can get them to agree on kicking us out they will be more inclined to agree on living up to the terms of our leaving.
I want to see progress on Iraq no matter what others say ‘liberals’ want. They need to decide on how to split the oil revenue once and for all mostly. I think it is going to happen only because Pelosi has forced the issue.
If the Iraqi Parliament asks the U.S. to withdraw our troops, I say, let’s withdraw our troops.
There’s some good commentary on Mitch’s CNN performance over at Pat Crowley’s blog.
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