Pelosi Wants 'Rwanda-Like Genocide' in Iraq, Expert Says

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said President Bush's Iraq policy has failed. She spoke in response to comments made last week by Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, who said that no one in the U.S. and Iraqi governments thinks there has been "sufficient progress by any means" when it comes to Iraqi national reconciliation. [i.e., the politics]

But Michael Rubin, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, called Petraeus a "realist," adding that "the progress toward reconciliation will take time."... "President Bush doesn't have a magic wand," he said. "But there is a huge difference between not following an arbitrary congressional timeline and failing."

"The worst possible option would be to withdraw and create a vacuum," Rubin told Cybercast News Service.

[The critical thing is that Iraq be made to fail in time for the presidential election.
Party before country]

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