Maliki: Condi's Supporting the Terrorists

The Washington Post has an article up in which Iraqi PM Nouri Al Maliki takes Georgie and Condi to task over some of their recent criticisms of his administration.

Check out this back and forth:

[Maliki] took exception to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's Senate testimony last week that Maliki's administration was on "borrowed time."

The prime minister said statements such as Rice's "give morale boosts for the terrorists and push them toward making an extra effort and making them believe they have defeated the American administration," Maliki said. "But I can tell you that they have not defeated the Iraqi government."

Ouch! That rhetoric comes right out of the Bush administration playbook. It must be a bitch to have your own twisted logic spit back in your face.

And there's much more. Kevin Drum looks at another passage and concludes: "Shorter Nouri al-Maliki: Just give us all your guns and then get out. We'll take care of the rest." I would take it further and say Maliki and the Shiites, by actions and words, are really saying: "Give us your guns and we'll take care of the ethnic cleansing."