“an insult to the people of Iraq”
The President of Iraq understands that the recomendations of stuffed shirts who never left the Green Zone while visiting Iraq do not take into consideration the people who will be most adversely effected by its findings.
“It is not respecting the desire of the Iraqi people to control its army and to be able to rearm and train Iraqi forces under the leadership of the Iraqi government,” he said during an interview with several reporters in his office in Baghdad.
And you have to love this:
Talabani was the most senior government official to take a stand against the report, which has also come under sharp criticism from American conservatives who claim it amounts to a veiled surrender in the war against terror.
So how much more senior do you get than president? And just how “veiled” is this report? From what I gather from reading it is Defeat, Redeploy, Screw the Iraqis, Quagmire, and did I mention Retreat?
“If you read this report, one would think that it is written for a young, small colony that they are imposing these conditions on,” Talabani said. “We are a sovereign country.”