Posted by
Dawnsblood on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 6:48:44 PM
It seems the President
is getting more support from muslim countries than the US Congress these days.
Moderate Arab states told the United States on Tuesday they
supported President George W. Bush's plan for a military buildup in
Iraq, hoping it would halt a slide to civil war.Foreign
ministers of six Gulf Arab states, Egypt and Jordan, all concerned that
chaos in Iraq could spread to the entire region, expressed their
backing for the 20,000 extra troops at talks with U.S. Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice in Kuwait.
"We expressed our desire to see
the president's plan to reinforce American military presence in Baghdad
as a vehicle ... to stabilize Baghdad and prevent Iraq sliding into
this ugly war, this civil war," Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh
Mohammad al-Salem al-Sabah told a joint news conference with Rice, who
is on a regional tour to marshal support for Bush's plan.