From Tweety's July 26th show.
ED ROGERS, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: I think it was really petty, I think it was in poor form. I think it was against American interests for them to drag Maliki into this. He doesn‘t have a dog in the Israel-Hezbollah fight. And to drag him into it ...MATTHEWS: How do you know that?
ROGERS: Well, how do we know ...
MATTHEWS: He‘s a Shia. The Shia run Hezbollah.
ROGERS: Shia is not a common political denominator, so I disagree with the premise of your earlier question, but Maliki risks his life every day to bring democracy to Iraq, to be our ally, to be our man there, and for us to insult him and be gratuitous by clamoring against him, basically coming to the Congress and saying thank you, America, I think was in poor form and I think it hurt America‘s interest in Iraq.
MATTHEWS: Is the prime minister, that we installed as head of Iraq, through the process we undertook, is he pro or anti-Israeli, as far as you know?
ROGERS: As far as I know, it is irrelevant for his task at hand. His day job is to bring peace and security and democracy to Iraq. We shouldn‘t make him part of the side show that is taking place right now in Lebanon, in Southern Lebanon. It‘s unfair to him.
MATTHEWS: Well, politically, we all know at this table, what happens to Israel is not a side show. It‘s very strong in American politics. Michael get on here.
Maliki is *OUR* man? We still looking for the Iraqi government to have any credibility? Don't we need them to be independent? How are they ever going to be able to stand up if we're still sitting on their laps?
Posted by kerry at July 27, 2006 06:26 AMI can only say blehhhhhhhharf. Can't stand the national republican party at all, they're so bent over in trying to protect their own interests.
Posted by: PSoTD at July 28, 2006 06:08 AM