Bush visits our 51st state, Iraq, and disses Maliki in the process

he sends gates to meet with the iraqi bigwigs first while he zips in and out of a u.s. airbase... some pretty potent buried messages here, methinks... first of all, it's a desperate move... he needs the media exposure and p.r... secondly, it's a clear middle finger to maliki... thirdly, zooming in and out of a u.s. airbase in a foreign country that is under u.s. occupation and NOT going to baghdad only serves to reinforce the view generally held by a majority of people around the world that iraq is really a u.s. possession, and does not act as its own country...

President Bush made a surprise visit to Iraq on Monday, using the war zone as a backdrop to argue his case that the buildup of U.S. troops is helping stabilizing the nation.

The president secretly flew 11 hours to Iraq as a showdown nears with Congress over whether his decision in January to order 30,000 more U.S. troops to Iraq is working.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived ahead of Bush, and convened a meeting with the country's top political leaders to highlight Bush administration hopes for prodding Iraq into a "bottom-up" approach to national reconciliation.

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Bush and his national security team flew directly to this air base in a remote part of Anbar province, bypassing Baghdad in a symbolic expression of impatience with political paralysis in the nation's capital. The gesture underscored the U.S. belief that the spark for progress may come at the local level.

and we wonder why they hate us...

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