Powell: U.S. Open to Compromise on Iraq

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Secretary of State Colin Powell said Friday the Bush administration was open to suggestions by China and other nations that would strengthen control by a new Iraqi government over U.S.-led forces in the country.

Dismissing any possibility the U.N. Security Council would become embroiled in the kind of divisive debate that preceded the U.S. war against Iraq, Powell underscored that the troops were in Iraq ``at the consent of the government of the people of Iraq.''

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-US-Iraq.html

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Is it "open to suggestions " time?

I've got a couple.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. As the old Tom Waits tune goes,

"You've been drinking cleaning products all night...
Open for suggestions...."

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. Hello sucker, we like your money just as well as anybody else's here

[damnraddem]

8. Isn't Waits the one who said:

"I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy?"

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

9. If it's not, it sounds like something he should/would have said.

[Vickers]

4. More flip-flop crap from the stay-the-course folks.

Buncha pudknockers.

[tom_paine]

5. God, he lies so much! He licks the boots of his Bushevik Masters

so clean.

NOTE: This has nothing to do with race and everything to do with character weakness of the Loyal German, which is what Powell is (I mean, aside from a disgrace to his uniform)

[gratuitous]

6. Who do they think they're fooling?

Clearly, no other countries believe this nonsense. It clearly goes against the grain of the True Believers. And the number of folks willing to give these liars the benefit of the doubt shrinks daily. What's the purpose of this charade?

[damnraddem]

7. If U.S. troops are there ...

'at the consent of the government of the people of Iraq,' then such an entity must already exist -- so what's being turned over on June 30?

Powell has sunk so low.

[cheezus]

10. Oh, so we DO negotiate with terrorists!

FLIP FLOP ALERT!

[w4rma]

11. Powell is *always* ignored by the rest of the Bush misadministration.

The fact that Powell is the one making this message tells me that they are still trying to buy time until the election.

[Alerter_]

12. Ouch. Look how far we have fallen

We are asking China and Russia for a "compromise"? So much for the World's Greatest Superpower and Global Cop.