Senate foreign relations committee criticises Iraq policy
ABC AM - Thursday, 16 September , 2004 08:18:00
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2004/s1200351.htm
'In an unusually candid hearing of the US Senate foreign relations committee, Republican and Democrat members have been highly critical of the administration's policy in Iraq.
The hearing was examining the administration's decision to redirect billions of dollars in reconstruction funds to security'
Things are going so badly in TexIraq that Bush is going to strip the reparations and reconstruction, removing any hope of Iraqis to get water, power and sewerage restored, to shore up the crumbling security situation
Vietraq Mk II
'Committee members openly aired their frustration with the Bush administration's slow progress in Iraq. Only about six per of the $25 billion of reconstruction money approved by the Congress last year ago has been spent.
CHUCK HAGEL: It's beyond pitiful, it's beyond embarrassing, it is now in the zone of dangerous.
JOHN SHOVELAN: Republican Senator Chuck Hagel says the administration is risking failure if it doesn't act with greater urgency.
The Bush administration has formally asked Congress for permission to transfer nearly $5 billion from Iraqi water, sewerage and electricity projects to pressing security, economic and electoral programs, an acknowledgment of the impact that the increasing violence has had on it's rebuilding effort.
CHUCK HEGEL: You are talking about re-programming $3.4 billion, taking $3.4 billion, most if for water and sewer and electricity out of those accounts and moving them mainly to accounts to enhance security.
Now, that does not add up in my opinion to a pretty picture, to a picture that shows that we're winning. But it does add up to this: an acknowledgment that we are in deep trouble.'
Howard and Bush have INCREASED instability, created conditions in which terror now flourishes, and made us all less safe.
But the most telling criticism is now coming from senior REPUBLICANS, who are starting to panic;
JOHN SHOVELAN: The criticism from the committee's most senior Republicans has extra sting because it's just seven weeks until the Presidential election. The Chairman of the committee Republican Richard Lugar attacked the administration for being dishonest about progress in Iraq.
RICHARD LUGAR: What I call the dancing in the street crowd.'
How well we know them.. Howard and Usenet stooges such as ralph who keep pretending it's rosepetal welcomes from grateful Iraqis. B^p
JOHN SHOVELAN: Senator John Kerry, the Democrat challenging for the White House today joined with the Republicans critics.
JOHN KERRY: His is the excuse presidency – never wrong, never responsible, never to blame. President Bush's desk isn't where the buck stops, it's where the blame begins.'
That is PRECISELY a description of John WMD Howard! On every issue from TexIraq to Truth Overboard!
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'The administration request comes as heavy fighting continues between US forces and Iraqi insurgents, fighting which is now jeopardising the chances for elections scheduled in January.'
pfffft. the USSA has been stalling elections ever since they finally realised that Shiites would win and Bush would have spent trillions and slaughtered tens of thousands, and unleashed anarchy.. all to replace a secular regime with an Islamist one! B^p
The UN is correct.. the war was illegal!
