Iraqi Government Should be voted out: U.S. Senator

How about letting the people of Iraq decide whether they want the U.S. troops in their country. It is the height of hypocrisy to criticize the government of Iraq for things going badly when it was our invasion that was the problem in the first place. It is laughable for the Bush administration (and the rest of Congress, for that matter) to talk about getting results from politicians in Baghdad when the Republicans lost control of Congress because of their failed policies relating to Iraq:

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government should be voted out because it has failed to use the U.S. military buildup in that country to reach a political solution to end the war, a key U.S. lawmaker said on Monday.

"I hope that the Iraqi assembly, when it reconvenes in a few weeks, will vote the Maliki government out of office and will have the wisdom to replace it with a less sectarian and a more unifying prime minister and government," said Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee.

They at least got some of it right. The problem is there can be no political solution as long as George Bush is in office:

"There's a consensus that there is no military solution and there is only a political solution, and that's truer now than it has ever been, and the gridlock has got to end in that government if there's going to be a political solution," Levin said.