Condi On Fox News Today,sunday 5 August

[Texas Stratocaster]

SAW CONDI ON FOX NEWS TODAY AND SHE SAID THAT THE GOI "HAS" THE VOTES TO PASS THE TOTAL HCL,FIL BUT DON'T WANT TO DO IT WITH A 50 TO 49 MAJORITY VOTE, THEY WANT EVERYONE ON BOARD:lmao: :no: .....IT WILL BE A COLD DAY IN HECK WHEN THAT HAPPENS. ANYBODY ELSE SEE THAT. CHRIS WALLACE MADE A POINT TO RE-ASK THE QUESTION SO TO UNDERSTAND WHAT SHE SAID.

[starman]

Time for the GOI to get his act together .:drunk:

Time for action no more BS.

[British Bulldog]

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SAW CONDI ON FOX NEWS TODAY AND SHE SAID THAT THE GOI "HAS" THE VOTES TO PASS THE TOTAL HCL,FIL BUT DON'T WANT TO DO IT WITH A 50 TO 49 MAJORITY VOTE, THEY WANT EVERYONE ON BOARD:lmao: :no: .....IT WILL BE A COLD DAY IN HECK WHEN THAT HAPPENS. ANYBODY ELSE SEE THAT. CHRIS WALLACE MADE A POINT TO RE-ASK THE QUESTION SO TO UNDERSTAND WHAT SHE SAID.

[jcav]

An excerpt:

WALLACE: Madam Secretary, it's now been 15 months since Maliki took over. It's been 7 months since the surge began.

I know, as you just mentioned, there has been some progress in the provinces where some of the Sunni sheiks have turned against Al Qaeda.

But I want to ask you specifically about Baghdad. How do you explain the total failure over 15 months of the central government — the failure to pass any of these key laws of national reconciliation?

RICE: Well, Chris, these key laws go right to the heart of what kind of Iraq it's going to be, and it's hard. They could have passed these laws by majority votes.

There's no doubt that they have enough votes in coalition to pass a national oil law, that they could pass de-Baathification laws. They could do that.

But they're trying to do this by consensus. They're trying to do it in a way that brings all Iraqis together regardless of what sectarian or what confessional group they come from. And that's very, very hard.

But it's not inconsequential that these very powerful party leaders are represented in this presidency council, that they're using the structure of the presidency council plus the prime minister to try and forge a compromise on some of these issues.

It's not inconsequential that money is really now starting to flow from the center into the provinces which will help the reconciliation that is happening from the localities upward and from the national government downward. They do need to make more progress.

WALLACE: May I interrupt, Madam Secretary?

RICE: Well, let me just say, Chris, they need to make more progress, but we shouldn't forget that they are, in fact, taking on some of these very, very difficult challenges at the leadership level.

WALLACE: So I want to make sure I'm — because I've not heard this before. You're saying that the Iraqi parliament could pass the de-Baathification law, the oil revenue law, and they've chosen not to do that because they want to get more of a consensus?

RICE: No, Chris, I said that I think that if they just took a majority vote, they could probably get through a national oil reconciliation law, but it would not have the support of all of the groups that are trying to do this.

And so they're trying to do a national oil reconciliation law that really brings all of the parties together. They don't want a 51- 49 on constitutional reform.

They want to try and bring this about in a way that brings all of the important groups together, and I think that that makes a lot of sense.

WALLACE: If they're so busy in trying to build a consensus, how do you defend the fact that the Iraqi parliament is taking the month of August off because it's too hot, while at the same time U.S. soldiers in full battle gear continue to patrol the streets of Baghdad?

RICE: Well, the leadership is not on recess. And the presidency council and the prime minister are still working.

This is a parliamentary system, Chris. And underneath the council of representatives, there are important party interests that are working to try to forge consensus so that when it goes to the council of representatives it has an opportunity to pass.

It's difficult work. It's difficult work to define how you're going to divide the resources of the country, the national oil resources of the country. It's difficult work to decide how you're going to deal with the past of the Baath party. It's difficult work to decide how you're going to reform the constitution.

We've been very clear that we don't think that they have achieved enough and that they need to work harder. We've been very clear that there is urgency to this. And the president, when he speaks to these leaders, when I speak to them, when all of us speak to them, we tell them that.

But we shouldn't simply dismiss the efforts that they're making to try to bring about a national consensus on these very important issues, and we shouldn't dismiss the work that they're doing to bring budget resources to the localities so that when Iraq emerges, it emerges as a place that has the support of all of its people.

And again, Chris, on what is happening in Anbar, we're not just talking about a few local sheiks coming over to the side of the coalition. We're talking about what used to be called the Sunni Triangle, this place in which Al Qaeda was strongest.

We're talking about these people deciding that they're going to take back their streets from Al Qaida, they're going to take back their streets from terrorism, and they're going to do it in cooperation with the United States.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292173,00.html

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[Wolverine]

I love Condi !!!
:wave:

[crabman]

Maybe there is truth to the fact they are meeting in a suimmit of the three parties to gain a consenus to the issues in question. Very good information again thank you

[crabman]

Maybe there is truth to the fact they are meeting in a suimmit of the three parties to gain a consenus to the issues in question. Very good information again thank you

[PowerGen1]

They will pull the rabbit out of the hat in SEPTEMBER!!!!!!!

[sgman48]

thanks for the info texas stratocaster....at least they have the votes necessary...now just pass the darn thing....!!!!

[44special]

This gives me hope I haven't had in quite some time. Haven't wallpapered my bathroom yet, but was beginning to believe I wouldn't be alive to spend them. I guess it just goes to show it's not over til' it's over!

[Snoop]

Its nice to know there are people like Condi, in the ring fighting for us.

[krr]

Unfortunately since Sunday when this interview took place, more ministers have left the Maliki gov't and the a Sunni group has left - so does Maliki still have the 51% to pass anything - I doubt it.

Further Maliki's visit to Iran does not bode well - and he wants to implement the agreements reached in Iran quickly! Why doesn't he want to implement the things he told the US he would do quickly.

I see Maliki more and more as in the pocket of Iran and not really working toward attaining the "benchmarks" the US wants.

Lots of talk on this forum about "kicking Maliki out," but he was elected in a US sanctioned election. It looks like Parliament would have to oust him in order not to create an international uproar - unless the US can bring enough pressure to bear on him to resign - which may happen when he doesn't reach the "benchmarks" in the Sept report.

Time will tell.

I really like what the Kurds are doing. Maybe if Maliki is out of the way, other members of gov't will see there is more money to be made by getting the economy up and running than by just stuffing their own pockets with $10K US dollars a month and getting nothing done!