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PostWed May 09, 2007 11:30 pm    Republican Congressmen Meet with President Bush

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TIM RUSSERT, NBC NIGHTLY NEWS: Brian, all eyes on the Republican party. How long will they support the president's position on the Iraq War? Yesterday may have been a defining, pivotal moment.

At two-thirty in the afternoon, in the private quarters of the White House, the Solarium Room, eleven Republican congressmen had a private meeting with the president, the secretary of defense, the secretary of state, the chief political advisor Karl Rove, and the White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, and others.

This delegation was headed by Mark Kirk of Illinois and Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania. It was, in the words of one of the participants, the most unvarnished conversation they've ever had with the president.


http://www.drudgereport.com/flash2wh.htm

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One congressman said, "How can our daughters and sons spill their blood while the Iraqi parliament goes on vacation?


I agree. I am tired of our people dying for this government that doesn't appear to care all that much.


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PostWed May 09, 2007 11:49 pm    

So the Iraqi parliament can't go on vacation? I don't get it, but I do agree that I am quite annoyed with the lack of action taken by the Iraqi government. It's disappointing that they're not standing up like they should, and something needs to be done to get them to take action. I think the only political solution that can work, however, is the three-state, one country solution I discussed elsewhere where democracy can still apply, namely when it comes to selecting the national government (which would primarily deal with matters of defense, internal security, oil revenues, and international relations), the Baghdad city government (by the people of Baghdad, of course), and the individual state governments to run their own regions pretty much autonomously. There's no way these people will work together as a nation on all the matters at hand unless another dictator like Saddam is put in place, so we need a different solution that can have greater efficacy when it comes to putting the political pieces of Iraq back together so we can leave.


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