House Dems Board the NeoCon Koolaid Bus- Blast Malaki on Israel-

[chill_wind]

statements.

Democrats blast Maliki on Israel statements

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Democrats voiced alarm on Tuesday over Iraq's denunciation of Israel in the Mideast conflict, and some said Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's upcoming address to Congress should be canceled unless he apologizes.

A group of House of Representatives Democrats was circulating a letter to House Speaker Dennis Hastert urging the Illinois Republican to secure an apology from Maliki or cancel the address on Wednesday to a joint meeting of Congress.

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Iraq's U.S.-backed government on Saturday denounced Israel's "criminal" raids on Lebanon and Gaza and warned that violence could escalate across the Middle East.

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With more than 2,500 U.S. service members killed in the Iraq conflict, more than 18,000 wounded and more than $300 billion in U.S. tax dollars spent, the Senate Democrats said, "Americans deserve to know whether Iraq in an ally in these fights.

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That ungrateful, ungrateful country of total death and ruin that we still occupy! We're STILL waiting for the kisses and ticker-tape parades and "flowers on the tanks".

[Fredda Weinberg]

1. Your world is as black & white as the right wingnuts

Try to understand ... there are progressives who disagree with you on this subject. We are not neo-cons or fellow travellers.

[chill_wind]

2. It is ONLY in the neocon world of glue-sniffing and phosphorous vapors

that everything regarding Iraq could be so mysteriously, so fully, so "alarmingly" unanticipated. Including Iraq's present less than sympathetic dispositition toward Israel's campaign of carnage ongoing as we write.

"Progressive" faction, my arse.