February 25, 2005

HILL'S IRAQ SLAP

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has touched off a diplomatic flap with Iraq's incoming government by questioning whether the leading candidate to become the next prime minister is too close to Iran's ayatollahs.

The likely new prime minister, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, shot back at Clinton, who just completed a visit to Iraq, by questioning her credibility as a spokeswoman for U.S. foreign policy.

"Hillary Clinton, as far as I know, does not represent any political decision or the American administration and I don't know why she said this," al-Jaafari told The Times of London.

"She knows nothing about the Iraq situation," he added.
[WTG, you bossy bee-ach! Ha-ha-ha!
She's p*ssing people off all over the world.
At last, someone had b*lls bigger than hers!
I like al-Jaafari already!]
Clinton's office did not respond to requests for comments on al-Jaafari's remarks about her.

Al-Jaafari, a 58-year-old physician who spent decades in exile during Saddam's regime, was named a candidate for prime minister earlier this week by the Shia-dominated bloc that won the most seats in Iraq's National Assembly in last month's election.

He is facing a stiff challenge from current Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, who is putting together a secular bloc inside the new parliament despite the fact his party placed a distant third in the voting.

Although the Bush administration privately prefers Allawi, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said al-Jaafari is someone the United States can work with, despite his more fundamentalist Islamist leanings.

I think the Iraqis are liking democracy and freedom of speech just fine.
While we here over in the cradle of freedom (America) seem forced by law to discuss Hillary's run for the White House in 2008 every single day and we've been made to do so by the Leftist Media (including bloggers) for at least the last 6 months.
Can we give it a rest and live with President Bush for the next 4 years and fight the war, please?
Hillary should worry more about winning reelection to the Senate in 2006...or is that a "done deal?"
(If I were a New Yorker, I wouldn't be too happy with much of anything that Her Heinous has done for the Empire State as the junior senator!)