SO WHOSE NOT QUALIFIED TO LEAD?SEN. JOHN MCCAIN:
Well, we’ve got a conflict going on in Iraq where the United States is fighting and doing everything that they can to help democracy evolve there.
The Prime Minister of Iraq and others have condemned Hezbollah and say they do not support them.
So, if you want to have our effort in Iraq impaired by this situation, go ahead, but
I think the Democrats are proving again why they’re not qualified to lead.http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/26/mccain-hezbullah/But-But-ButMr Bush was asked how he could get Arab nations to apply pressure to stop the fighting given that allies, including
Mr Maliki, would not condemn Hizbollah.Mr Maliki avoided giving his view of Hizbollah. He urged the international community to do more to protect hard-won freedom. "There have to be decisions coming from above to protect these democratic experiments," he said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/26/wmid526.xmlAnother But"This morning I asked him directly, 'Do you believe that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization?'" Durbin told reporters after Maliki's address to Congress. "He did not respond. He would not respond to that question."
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Senator_says_Iraqi_PM_wont_call_0726.htmlAndIraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki and his Dawa party have deeper ties to the Hezbollah leadership than has surfaced in recent reporting on his visit to the White House, emails Mark Perry. "Maliki went to school with the Hezbollah leadership ... Hezbollah in mid 1980s worked to free 'the Dawa 17' -- arrested by Kuwait for a suicide bomb that killed three Americans in the US embassy in Kuwait. Now Dawa is the ruling party in Iraq and allied to the US and their leader visits the White House." According to news reports, Maliki headed the Dawa party's Jihad office in Damascus in the 1980s.
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