What are the Iraqi blogs saying?...
Riverbend - silent since the 5th
Baghdad Blogger -
The Iraqi resistance and the outcome of the US congress election
As news sources said that representatives from the Iraqi resistance met a US delegation in Amman, in preparation for the second meeting, before starting the “real” negotiations, but, still we don’t know if the previous meetings were part of Republicans Congress election PR campaign to score few points, before the real negotiations starts.
With the fact that Democrats are the majority in the US congress election, the question is:
How the Iraqi resistance will adjust the negotiations to get the maximum benefits from chaotic US (Bush) policy in Iraq?
http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2006/11/08/the-iraqi-resistance-and-the-outcome-of-the-us-congress-election/#respondRaed Jarrar's blog - Silent since the 4th
Back to Iraq -
Muted reaction to mid-terms in Lebanon
BEIRUT — Reaction to the American mid-terms was muted in Beirut, a city still shell-shocked from the summer war with Israel and consumed by its own domestic political drama.
Much of Lebanon’s attention is focused not on American politics, but its own, which are dominated by roundtable talks taking place this week among the country’s powerful feudal lords who preside over their own sectarian fiefdoms.
http://www.back-to-iraq.com/Juan Cole says there may be 4 results from the elections... not a one mentions that Iraqis or the Terrorists even care...
First, it demonstrates once again that the American public simply will not put up with a return to the age of colonialism and does not want to occupy Asian countries militarily. Do you think that Abu Ghraib and American torture-pornography, the daily grind of violence, the stupid mistakes, have passed them by so that they didn't notice? They might swallow all this reluctantly but they want light at the end of the tunnel. There is not any in Iraq, as these pictures strongly suggest. They want it over with. It isn't.
Second, Bush is not going to be able to put any more Scalia types on the Federal benches or the Supreme Court.
Third, a Bush administration war on Iran now seems highly unlikely. A major initiative of that sort would need funding, and I don't think Congress will grant it. The Democrats don't want an Iran with a nuclear weapon any more than the Republicans do. But they are more likely to recognize that there is no good evidence that Iran even has a nuclear weapons program, and have been chastened by Iraq enough to distrust purely military solutions to such crises.
Fourth, there will now finally be accountability. It is obvious to me that the Bush administration has been engaged in large-scale crimes and corruption, and has gotten away with it because the Republican heads of the relevant committees have refused to investigate these crimes. Democratic committee heads with subpoena power will finally be able to force the Pentagon and other institutions to fork over the smoking gun documents, and then will be in a position to prosecute.
http://www.juancole.com/
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