Killing of Iraqi leader deals new blow to Bush

[Spazito]

BAGHDAD (AFP) - The head of the interim Iraqi Governing Council was killed by a car bomb in a new blow to a US government reeling from charges that it gave top-level approval for the abuse of prisoners and an admission that it was misled over Iraq (news - web sites)'s weapons of mass destruction.

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But in Moscow, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yury Fedotov said the attack was "yet another very worrying signal about the need to rethink the very model of how Iraq is governed."


Russia is a veto-wielding permanent member of the UN Security Council, which the United States wants to adopt a new resolution so as to involve the international community in the military and economic stabilization of Iraq.

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The administration had already had one of its worst weekends since President George W. Bush (news - web sites) took office in January 2001.

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[Khephra]

1. It wasn't such a great week for the people killed this week in Iraq either

[leftchick]

Exactly khephra! What about the Iraqis?

Fuck bush*! :grr:

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Why don't the council members move into the palace

compound with Bremer? It's the only "safe" place if you are part of the illegal bush/rumsfeld army of the genocide.

[narcjen]

3. Message from Paul Bremer

to the remaining members of the Iraq governing council:

This is what happens to you if you defy us in any way like this guy did.






...Oh, and have a nice day:)

[fryguy]

4. c'mon, every democracy needs an assassination or two to really get rolling

besides, this only reaffirms the success we are having in the regin. after all, under Saddam the Iraqis were not even free to assassinate their leaders....

/sarcasm

[Barkley]

5. Good One fryguy!

you've got me rollin' in laughter out here in California!

[xxqqqzme]

6. 'worst weekend'

jeez, the last 3 years have pretty much sucked big time.

[Beetwasher]

7. A Blow to Bush? He Wasn't the One that Was Blowed Up!

Yeesh, talk about misplace priorities. Poor Bush, people get blowed up and it looks bad for him. Never mind all the dead people.

[fryguy]

8. there are no dead people

only further evidence of our successes in the war on terrorism....

/sarcasm

(that one's for your barkley, new yorker keeping the west coaster rolling...)

[htuttle]

9. All US news stories are framed in terms of "Is it good or bad for Bush?"

Another example is the fact that this story has taken second place in the mainstream behind the 'suspected WMD shell' found, an issue that has no bearing on anything anymore other than Bush's election chances. The 'suspected Sarin shell' makes absolutely no difference to how this disaster of Bush's Iraq invasion actually pans out -- only whether it 'proves' that Bush didn't make a mistake or not.

It's all Bush, all the time now on the cable channels -- even when they aren't talking about him, the cable news media have attempted to frame the entire American outlook on the world in terms of whether it's 'With Bush' or 'Against Bush', politically speaking.

Pathetic, it is. Sad & Pathetic.

[benfranklin1776]

11. It is indeed.

Its like state run TV in the old Soviet Union in which all reporting focused on the Premier. No one else matters to modern cable Pravda, obviously not the victims of the carnage who, as other posters have rightfully pointed out, were killed. They no longer have the option of hoping for "a better week."

[Just Me]

10. To think, it's only Monday. This is going to be another week from hell.n/t

[BadGimp]

12. In the end..

All the American lives lost and damaged, all the told and untold billions of American taxpayer dollars, will have served only to install an Islamic Theoacractic government in Iraq.

Is that Mission Accomplished?