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It's interesting to have a USA Senator, once a First Lady, aware of the issues her husband faced. Now as a legislator, Hillary Rodham Clinton is a very unique woman. One would think as First Lady it would be enough of politics, but, Hillary keeps coming back. There is something about being a woman with a history of fighting for chidren's rights as Hillary did in her days with The Children's Defense Fund that keeps them involved.
http://search.eb.com/women/article-9095812
There is really no getting away from it, Hillary is a powerful person, not to mention a powerful woman. She has perspective even her spouse does not have. I don't believe Bill Clinton was ever a legislator. A Governor and President is different. Legislators seek support for issues pertinent to the people they represent in a different way. She does it well.
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There you go. Nancy Pelosi is right. Mr. Bush needs to speak truth to the people of this country. In the face of the newly released intelligence report I don't see the USA staying in Iraq. I don't consider the 'innocent face' of Karzai stating, "What are you going to do, let them come kill us again?" a proper answer to the question. He evaded the issues of Bush's incompetency to date in a very big way. President Karzai should answer the question, "How did it feel to be abandoned in Afghanistan when you realized a larger military effort could have secured Afghanistan that was witnessed in Iraq. Funding for reconstruction? Larger military force to end the presence of terrorists in his nation? Karzai never answered the primary issue that Americans are rightfully upset about? How does he view the continued presence of Osama bin Laden in the world? How does he feel about Iran's position regarding Bush's America and the Anti-Semitic remarks of Iran's president? How does he see his role given the fact he once tried to mend fences with Iran and the USA after he was returned as president of Afghanistan? There is a whole lot President Karzai can address to journalists in this country BUT does not. At least, President Musharraf is not afraid to speak his mind.
The Iraq nation is dissolving. It is a completely different circumstances in Iraq than Afghanistan. Iraq was never the issue of 911.
There is a huge power struggle between the ethnic groups in Iraq because of the long history of violence toward any one group at a time.
Iraq House debates autonomy
REUTERS
baghdad • Iraq’s parliament took tentative steps yesterday to resolve a deadlock over autonomous regions, an issue that has split its politicians on sectarian lines, as fresh clashes erupted in southern Baghdad.
Parliament named a committee to draft amendments to the constitution — a Sunni demand — and read out a bill to allow for regional autonomy, a key demand of powerful Shi’ite leaders. The two issues lie at the heart of Iraq’s sectarian divide and have hurt Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki’s efforts to end months of political paralysis and mounting violence. Many majority Shi’ites want to create an autonomous region in their oil-rich southern heartland.
Minority Sunnis fear this would siphon oil wealth from Baghdad and could tear the country apart, and want to amend the constitution to strengthen the powers of the central government. Kurds already have autonomy in the north and want their region to include the disputed oil city of Kirkuk. The parliamentary hearing was chaotic, with members shouting as the autonomy bill was read and renewed evidence of a split in the main Sunni bloc.
Violence continued. Police said Shi’ite militiamen had attacked a Sunni neighbourhood in southern Baghdad. Clashes ensued in which three people were killed and 10 wounded, and the withdrawing gunmen set three shops ablaze. A suicide car bomber killed two policemen in Jurf Al Sakhar. At least four bombs in Baghdad killed at least seven people. Bombers also struck in Kirkuk, Baquba and Latifiya, and mortars fell on houses in Mahmudiya, where police also found 12 bound and tortured corpses.
Iraqi parliament debates autonomy
Washington Post
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Everyone seems to think the USA is supposed to 'handle' the future of Iraq. "W"rong. I am confident the Iraq Central Authority finds it convenient to be the center of affection of Bush, Jr., but this legislative body has it's own ideas about the future of their people. I don't want to set up Iraq for portential human rights violations in the future as in Bosnia and Herzegovina where ethnic hatred absolutely killed so many. Bill Clinton participated in "The Dayton Accords" which settled the dispute and started separate governing provinces for the Serbs.
The problem is this, comparing and contrasting the violence of Bosnia and Iraq there are similarity in that in 1991 Bosnia immediately fell into war and crimes after splitting from Yugoslavia. I am sure Former President Clinton sees similarities in the issues and has made recommendations to Bush. I doubt sincerely anything but Bush's priorities matters.
If the ethnic groups of Iraq see peace within the autonomous states they have identified, they may be finding their own peace between each other; IF each find economies and security that compliment that division of sovereignty. I believe it is possible.
The question I would love for Former President Clinton to answer which no one ever asks, 'does he see parrallels between the Bosnia issues and Iraq's ethnic issues and does he see similar resolves as his Dayton Accords?
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Is no one paying attention to the storms still be spawned in the Atlantic or will they all go away, too?
http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_wv_east_loop-12.html
I suppose that one out there now isn't up to speed yet.
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You know I did notice today on Wolf's program how they adapted the introduction to match the one Aaron used to have called 'The Whip Around the World." Odd name I guess. But, it introduced everyone right up front. It was a nice preview. "Front Page Headline" is what it was considered and followed by Page Two and then Page Two and a Half and then Segment Papers and ..... well.... then the rest of the program.
Oh, yeah I added some questions to the Nancy Pelosi paragraph. I think they are great questions and the PROPER perspective of a failed war in Afghanistan.
enough
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