Clinton adopts new word for Iraqi resistance

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April 25, 2009

Clinton, in Iraq, Blames ‘Rejectionists’ for Violence

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“The more united Iraq is, the more you will trust the security services,” Mrs. Clinton said in response to a question about the army from a young Iraqi journalist, wearing a blazer and white shirt. “The security services have to earn your trust, but the people have to demand it.”

Mrs. Clinton insisted that the suicide bombings, which killed 160 people and injured hundreds more, did not mean that Iraq was returning to the sectarian violence that convulsed the country two years ago.

“In Iraq, there will always be political conflicts,” Mrs. Clinton said to reporters on Friday evening, before setting off on the unannounced visit. “But I really believe that Iraq, as a whole, is on the right track.”

She characterized the latest violence as the last gasp of “rejectionists” who fear the government will succeed in creating a united and peaceful Iraq. The suicide bombings, she said, are “in an unfortunately tragic way, a signal that the rejectionists fear that Iraq is going in the right direction.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/world/middleeast/26diplo.html?ref=world&pagewanted=print

[wyldwolf]

1. A good word for the GOP, too

[Historic NY]

2. my thought exactly...the "Party of Rejectionists"

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Again? Remember when Clinton described the "failing insurgency" in '05?

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-02-19-iraq-senators_x.htm
Clinton says insurgency is failing

BAGHDAD (AP) — As 55 people died in Iraq on Saturday, the holiest day on the Shiite Muslim religious calendar, Sen. Hillary Clinton said that much of Iraq was "functioning quite well" and that the rash of suicide attacks was a sign that the insurgency was failing.

Clinton, a New York Democrat, said insurgents intent on destabilizing the country had failed to disrupt Iraq's landmark Jan. 30 elections.

"The concerted effort to disrupt the elections was an abject failure. Not one polling place was shut down or overrun," Clinton told reporters inside the U.S.-protected Green Zone, a sprawling complex of sandbagged buildings surrounded by blast walls and tanks. The zone is home to the Iraqi government and the U.S. Embassy.

[Democracyinkind]

4. Oh Hillary... Take a good look in Baghdad and realize that there isn't that much to reject

Of course, we can still run the Sovereign Iraqi Government out of our bomb-proof Embassy death star if things go wrong.

[ixion]

5. stay the course...turned the corner...enemy is on the run... in their last throes

we've been hearing this for, what, six years now? :eyes:

[bigtree]

6. 'a new democratic Iraq'

. . . whatever they want to tell themselves, as long as it leads them to let it go.

[karynnj]

7. In Vietnam it was that there was light at the end of the tunnel

[Solly Mack]

8. ....

deja vu