On the same day that Secretary of State, Condolezza Rice was on the morning talk shows telling hosts that the Iraqi government did not take an August vacation her counterpart in the Defense Department was saying the opposite.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Sunday he was disappointed with the Iraqi government's lack of significant progress and said the nation's parliament should not have taken a summer break.
The facts are that they are on vacation, while our young men and women are still there, fighting and dying, as was shown this weekend as we lost 4 more soldiers. It is an outrage and as I wrote the other day, it is the last straw, and Bush must tell Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that his government needs to come back from vacation and get their business done, or our troops are going to go on vacation, back home in America!
I do not understand the Iraqi government thinking at a time when two Brookings Institute fellows who just got back from Iraq, have changed their views and said that "militarily" we are winning this war, through Bush's surge strategy, and yet we our going to lose because the politicians cannot get their act together. How sad that so many have died and it may end in failure, because the Iraqi politicians will not hold up their end of the deal to create a "stable" government!
My best to the troops, who are truly awesome and heroic in their efforts to protect us all in this tragic land. Thank you!!
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