Lawmakers Lose Patience With Iraq Gov't (Sen. Chuck Hagel for a planned withdrawal of U.S. troops)

[Omaha Steve]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20061127/D8LL87NG0.html

Lawmakers Lose Patience With Iraq Gov't
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Nov 27, 1:20 AM (ET)

By BEN FELLER

WASHINGTON (AP) - Congressional leaders displayed eroding patience in the Iraqi government on Sunday, adding pressure on President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to find a faster path to peace when they meet this week.

"It is not too late. The United States can still extricate itself honorably from an impending disaster in Iraq," Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, a potential presidential contender in 2008, said in urging for a planned withdrawal of U.S. troops.

"If the president fails to build a bipartisan foundation for an exit strategy, America will pay a high price for this blunder - one that we will have difficulty recovering from in the years ahead," Hagel wrote in Sunday's Washington Post.


Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel listens as President Bush speaks about immigration reform in Omaha, Neb., in this Wednesday, June 7, 2006 file photo. "If the president fails to build a bipartisan foundation for an exit strategy, America will pay a high price for this blunder, one that we will have difficulty recovering from in the years ahead," Hagel wrote in the Sunday, Nov. 26, 2006 Washington Post. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

As the U.S. involvement in Iraq surpassed the length of America's participation in World War II, lawmakers have dwindling confidence in the U.S.-supported Iraqi government. It was the deadliest week of sectarian fighting in Baghdad since the war began in March 2003.

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[ixion]

1. so now it's our puppet government's fault

the finger pointing is getting beyond ludicrous, IMO.

[leesa]

2. There is no 'honor' after an unprovoked invasion. Cut the fantasyland.

[wisteria]

3. Great, now maybe he should of taken his own advice back in June

and joined Senator Kerry, when he called for a similar withdraw of our troops. Now mind you, this wasn't the first time Kerry had suggested this either, so it wasn't new to Hagel.