View Full Version : Iraqi PM: Shootings threaten sovereignty
KB9YCO
09-23-2007, 09:09 PM
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070923/ap_on_re_mi_ea/al_maliki_interview" target="_blank"> NEW YORK - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Sunday the shooting deaths of civilians — allegedly at the hands of Blackwater USA guards — and other violence involving the company pose "serious challenges to the sovereignty of Iraq" and cannot be accepted... "The Iraqi government is responsible for its citizens and it cannot be accepted for a security company to carry out a killing," he told The Associated Press, speaking in his New York hotel suite ahead of his appearance at the U.N. General Assembly...
Noting that Blackwater has been linked to at least seven incidents involving gunfire on Iraqi civilians...</a>
Than I guess that we should just leave. That ought to help him retain sovereignty. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif
KB9YCO
09-23-2007, 09:24 PM
That would probably guarantee that they have no sovereignty. I am no fan of this war, and I do think it was a mistake; a bigger mistake would be to just leave and watch the entire country collapse. I know that's not a popular view with the many people, but I can't imagine the mess that Iraq would become if their was no stability, be it from UN troops or from us, and we just left. I sure hope that all the experts really know what they're doing, I certainly don't, but I hope it will all end positively and soon (probably wishful thinking on my part.)
Either way, these types of incidents are certainly not going to help.
AE6IP
09-23-2007, 11:37 PM
At some point, we will leave, and the country will collapse.
Actually, that's not true. The country collapsed the day the bombing started, and there's no putting humpty dumpty back together again.
Better to leave now then to waste more american lives.
VK3ZL
09-24-2007, 12:50 AM
Guess then Bush will look at some other country to invade to get their oil.
vk6zgo
09-25-2007, 01:01 PM
Quote[/b] (VK3ZL @ Sep. 23 2007,17:50)]Guess then Bush will look at some other country to invade to get their oil.
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Actually,if GWB had really wanted oil ,(& was sneaky enough) he could have made a separate agreement with Sadaam Hussein, to buy all the oil Iraq could supply .
Sadaam would have jumped at the idea. It would have upset the UN, but,easy come, easy go.
By invading Iraq,George hasn't really secured oil supplies,rather the opposite, as the country is in such a state of turmoil.
It seems to me that he sincerely believed that ridding Iraq of a blood thirsty tyrant was the right thing to do.
The problem is,that tyrant was the only thing holding the lid on the present problems.People welcomed the Coalition,because they were free to carry out their own plans,which for many of them included #civil war.
If GWB really wants oil,there's always Venezuela....
73 VK6ZGO
vk6zgo
09-25-2007, 01:02 PM
Sorry, duplicate deleted
VK6ZGO
Hey, let's be a bit consistent here.
Bush has always maintained that we wouldn't be there if we weren't wanted there. Well, the democratically elected head of the nation is saying, you are destabilizing my government and you are violating my countries sovereign rights.
I've never heard a clearer pleading for someone to leave.
Shall we debate what an SOS is?
kc2orw
09-25-2007, 04:20 PM
Quote[/b] (vk6zgo @ Sep. 25 2007,09:01)]Actually,if GWB had really wanted oil ,(& was sneaky enough) he could have made a separate agreement with Sadaam Hussein, to buy all the oil Iraq could supply .
Could have for sure, probably should have too. I am sure some would have complained about that as an alternative to.
Let's hope that from now on the USA gives up on being the worlds police force and let somebody else take the lead.
I see that so many countries are stepping up to assist in solving the Darfur problem...
Sudan has oil too, how much?, but no takers hmm...