nivi
Call me Ishmael
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070822/pl_afp/usiraqpoliticsclinton_070822220656
That doesn't seem too democratic, does it? Maybe she is just giving it a test run before trying it at home.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Leading Democratic Party presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton, on Wednesday urged the Iraqi parliament to get rid of embattled Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki saying he was not up to the job.
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She was speaking after Senator Carl Levin, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, hinted after a two-day visit to Iraq that Maliki should go.
Levin had "confirmed that the Iraqi governments failures have reinforced the widely held view that the Maliki government is nonfunctional and cannot produce a political settlement, because it is too beholden to religious and sectarian leaders," Clinton said in a statement.
"I share Senator Levin's hope that the Iraqi parliament will replace Prime Minister Maliki with a less divisive and more unifying figure when it returns in a few weeks."
Earlier Wednesday, President George W. Bush reaffirmed his support for the Iraqi leader, saying he was "a good guy, good man, with a difficult job, and I support him."
Clinton, who voted for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, has made withdrawing the 160,000 troops in the country a plank of her campaign to win the Democratic Party nomination for the 2008 presidential elections.
"It is abundantly clear that there is no military solution to the sectarian fighting in Iraq. We need to stop refereeing the war, and start getting out now," she reiterated in her statement Wednesday.
That doesn't seem too democratic, does it? Maybe she is just giving it a test run before trying it at home.