Lawmakers Question Bush's Iraq Policies

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030902/ap_on_go_co/congress_iraq&cid=512&ncid=1473

<snip>Frustrations over Iraq have increased in Washington and around the nation as the American death toll has risen. Congressional Republicans and Democrats alike also have been concerned about the speed of setting up an Iraqi government and restoring basic services such as water and electricity.

"I'm not discouraged, but I'm disappointed," said Rep. Henry Hyde, the House International Relations Committee chairman. "I think there was less thought given to the postwar, or the post-combat, aspect of the war than should have been."

A strong supporter of Bush, Hyde said in an interview that the United States should be willing to cede some authority in Iraq if needed to attract military help from other countries. The Bush administration has indicated it might be willing to get the United Nations involved, but only if all military forces remained under U.S. control.

"I think it is too great a burden to expect us to single-handedly reconstruct Afghanistan, Iraq, face the other problems in the world — North Korea, Liberia (news - web sites) and other troubled spots," Hyde said. "I think we need to look for reasonable compromises."

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[ixion]

1. sadly, it's too late for 'reasonable compromises'

the pugs should have sought compromise BEFORE they invaded, not afterward. Just another shining example of neocon arrogance.

[indypaul]

8. Yeh,

"Bring em on"

[NewYorkerfromMass]

9. sadly, I am glad to see Bush's support eroding so quickly

when a partisan creep like Hyde begins to question the president, then you know things are headed our way. Sadly, it has taken all these deaths of American troops.

[MoonAndSun]

2. Idiot repukes....

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"Hutchison said it is unfair to blame Bush because many of the problems in Iraq could not be foreseen."

They are hiding their heads in the sand, but it is not going to work. There were many voices out their trying to get their views heard on Iraq, but they were shouted down and called traitors.

This will come back and haunt the war-mongers, if it is not haunting them now. I can smell the fear in them.

[bvar22]

3. ALL of the problems now manifest in Iraq were foreseen!!!

All of these problems were forseen by millions.....discussed at length here on DU, by legitimate represenatives of European governmants, by millions of informed people screaming in the streets of the World.

The we didn't know excuse is BOGUS.

[underpants]

4. ~"There is no precedent for making W accountable for anything"

That's what he should have said because that is what he means. Any in an odd twist he wouldn't be LYING, boy that would throw everyone for a loop.

Total BS. Everyone knew this could (probably would happen) THAT was the point. Jesus!

[damnraddem]

6. Yeah, many of the problems in Iraq, that we foresaw,

could not have been foreseen. Sure! ;-)

[damnraddem]

5. LOL! Rats and ships, rats and ships!

And the thing is: Dubya will likely continue to disappoint the GOP pols. Some think that the big threat is that he will talk the UN into taking over in Iraq, thus bailing him out. I suspect that he will not try -- and if he did, he might not find the UN so ready to help. To get the UN to bail the U.S. out, he would have to pay a high price, in the course of which he would: disappoint his big corporate backers, particularly Haliburton; outrage the PNAC-ers and UN-bashers; draw derision from those who noticed his reliance on an UN that he had bashed in the lead-up to war; and so on. So, I just don't see Dubya as going along with UN control in Iraq. So I do see him as continuing to disappoint GOP pols like Hyde.

[hang a left]

7. what effing post-war post-combat

aspect would this jerk-off be talking about. there ain't no post-nothing in Iraq.

[Palacsinta]

10. If our little peace group here in Hicktown

could predict what might happen In "post-war" Iraq and be savvy enough to put it in our newspaper petition then WHY the F****** crap couldn't the administration?!!!!!!

[ewagner]

11. I keep hearing Rummy's

oft repeated phrase..."it's unknowable...it's unknowable"

BULLSH*T!