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Maliki lashes out at Hillary
26/08/2007 20:13 - (SA)
Baghdad - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri
al-Maliki hit back on Sunday at Democratic presidential hopeful
Senator Hillary Clinton and other US critics who have called
for him to be replaced, telling them "to come to their senses".
Maliki is under mounting pressure from officials in
Washington to show political progress towards reconciling his
majority Shi'ite Muslim sect and minority Sunni Arabs.
US
officials are frustrated by the negligible progress so far.
Clinton and fellow Democratic Senator Carl Levin, chair
of the Armed Services Committee, have called for Maliki to be
voted out because of his failure to find a political solution to
Iraq's bitter sectarian violence.
"There are American officials who consider Iraq as if it
were one of their villages, for example Hillary Clinton and Carl
Levin," Maliki told a news conference.
"This is severe interference in our domestic affairs. Carl
Levin and Hillary Clinton are from the Democratic Party and they
must demonstrate democracy.
"I ask them to come back to their senses and to talk in a
respectful way about Iraq."
Democrats in Congress have criticised President George W
Bush's Iraq policy and called for US troops to begin pulling
out as soon as possible.
Bush offered renewed support for Maliki last week, but
acknowledged that many were frustrated by the lack of political
progress towards national reconciliation.
- Reuters
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