Wednesday, May 02, 2007

but of course they didn't mean it!

Time Is Up On Rice’s ‘Two To Three Month’ Window For Escalation On Jan. 11, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the Bush administration would not “stay married” to its Baghdad security plan if the Iraqis do “not [live] up to their part of the obligation.” She said that “the most important thing that the Iraqi government has to do right now is to reestablish the confidence of its population that it’s going to be even-handed in defending it,” otherwise “this plan is not going to work.”

(Think Progress)