Why is it that here at home the mere mention of “timetables” sends Bushco into spasms of blubbering - about giving comfort to the terrorists and all that - while at the same time it’s OK to tell Iraq’s PM al-Maliki his government is living on “borrowed time”? I mean, never mind the part about his being democratically chosen and Iraq being a sovereign nation and the rest of that - the part about comforting the terrorists, I mean. Like...
That kind of thing. Well, al-Maliki’s no dummy. He’s figured out the drill.
See what I mean? And by the way, we’re not giving them weapons? What are they doing, just pointing fingers and saying “bang”?
Robert [“No Expert on Military Matters”] Gates, the new US Defence Secretary, said that Mr al-Maliki could lose his job if he failed to stop communal bloodshed and Condoleezza Rice, the Secretary of State, gave a warning that he was living on “borrowed time” and that American patience was running out.
That kind of thing. Well, al-Maliki’s no dummy. He’s figured out the drill.
In a sign of the tense relations with Washington, [al-Maliki] chided the US for suggesting his Government was living on “borrowed time”. Such criticism boosted Iraq’s extremists, he said....
See what I mean? And by the way, we’re not giving them weapons? What are they doing, just pointing fingers and saying “bang”?
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