Iraqi parliament ousts its speaker.
By on Jun 11th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Iraqi parliament ousts its speaker.
Iraq’s parliament today voted 113 to 55 to “oust its speaker, Mahmoud Mashhadani, a day after one of his bodyguards allegedly roughed up another lawmaker, legislators said.”
UPDATE: Last year, Mashhadani described the U.S. occupation of Iraq as “butcher’s work.” He also stated, “I personally think whoever kills an American soldier in defense of his country would have a statue built for him in that country.”
UPDATE II: The Newshoggers have more.
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Al-Mashhadani allegedly said Iraqis who killed US troops should be celebrated as heroes
http://english.aljazeera.net/English
June 11th, 2007 at 2:54 pmThis is the glowing model of democratic government that’s supposed to shine for all the other ME goverments to admire?
June 11th, 2007 at 2:55 pmYeah, right, neocontortionists.
“Be careful who you fight, for you may become like them.” When you go a little deeper, you find that this makes sense. The passions of conflict are so strangely interwoven that it is not uncommon for one party to a conflict to unwittingly take on the characteristics of the other.
June 11th, 2007 at 2:57 pmTexas friends of the president told columnist Georgie Ann Geyer that it’s the president’s intention to arrange things so that his successors for half a century will never be able to pull out of Iraq.
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/galloway/17331908.htm
June 11th, 2007 at 3:01 pmYeah, right, neocontortionists.
Comment by RUCerious
Heh. Fantastic!
Ok — question: How would this have been handled in the US? By Repukes and Dems.
June 11th, 2007 at 3:01 pmThink about it, this is a step in the right direction, this guy tried to use brute force, and was fired. Perhaps if the rule of law can be established Iraq will be okay. I don’t have much hope, but I actually think this is a good thing. (my apologies to Martha Stewart)
June 11th, 2007 at 3:02 pmO Boy…It looks like we are priming the Iraqi Parliament to get rid of dissenting votes so that they will vote to give away 70% of Iraq’s oil profits to US and British corporations. If that travesty happens, we will never get out of Iraq and the Iraqi’s will never stop killing the people who are occupying their country.
This does not bold well for us.
June 11th, 2007 at 3:05 pmKraz, you’re right, they need to elect a new speaker, hopefully one whose bodyguards will refrain from assaulting other members of parliament. Assuming, of course, such a person is there to be found.
Mistress Z~
June 11th, 2007 at 3:07 pmThe repuglycan would call the Dem soft on terror and the Dem would hold a meaningless vote to chastise the repugnicant
Mistress Z~
The repuglycan would call the Dem soft on terror and the Dem would hold a meaningless vote to chastise the repugnicant
Comment by RUCerious
And neither side would manage it in two days!
June 11th, 2007 at 3:09 pmAl-Mashhadani allegedly said Iraqis who killed US troops should be celebrated as heroes
http://english.aljazeera.net/English
Comment by Tobey Tall — June 11, 2007 @ 2:54 pm
What he said was any Iraqi who kills an American in defense of his country is a hero. Most of the people we’re fighting over there are Iraqi nationals and we’re supposedly defending our country. I don’t see anything wrong with his statement. What’s good for us should be good for him, and if they are reduced to fighting Americans to defend their country, then it is LONG since time for us to go.
June 11th, 2007 at 3:20 pmUm… well the fact that the Iraqi parliament chucked him suggests that they are becoming more favorable toward moderate politics. Is this not a good thing?
June 11th, 2007 at 3:42 pmSwordsbane at #10
Well said. What the Iraqis are doing are the same thing that the Americans would do if another country came in and occupied the United States by force. Any American should, if they can look beyond that overused word called patriotism, be able to empathize with the plight of the average Iraqi.
June 11th, 2007 at 4:20 pmbutcher’s work
I actually agree there
Bush is a very very sick bloke
June 11th, 2007 at 4:22 pmUm… well the fact that the Iraqi parliament chucked him suggests that they are becoming more favorable toward moderate politics. Is this not a good thing?
Comment by imorgan82 — June 11, 2007 @ 3:42 pm
It depends on why they chucked him. If it’s just to appease the Bush administration and stay in our good graces, then no… it’s not a good thing. If it’s to stop the guy bullying their parliment and the Iraqi leadership and help stop the fighting that’s going on there, then yes, it’s a good thing.
Bets?
June 11th, 2007 at 4:23 pmswordsbane
I aggree also
no WMD
no Saddam
Not really a democracy
No Reason to stay – its definately an occupation now for OIL
should never have even happened
Bush is now a mass murderer and should be sent to the gallows – even though I dont believe in capital punishment , But I would love to see all neocons waterboarded to death
June 11th, 2007 at 4:26 pmJune 11th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
my last comment was at swordsbane… tried to blockquote, but it didn’t work.
June 11th, 2007 at 4:53 pm“I was impressed by him,” said Bush during a press conference. “He’s a fellow that had been put in prison by Saddam and, interestingly enough, put in prison by us. And he made a decision to participate in the government.”
June 11th, 2007 at 5:54 pmIf given half a chance I’m sure most of the Iraqi parliamentarians feel the same about our occupation as Mahmoud Mashhadani, “Who destroyed Iraq? Who plundered Iraq?” exploded al-Mashhadani in a recent interview. “It is none other than the blue jinn whose name is: the American Occupation.”
Looks like DUHmerikkka…
…could use…
…an Iraqi congress…
June 11th, 2007 at 7:45 pmYou are told only 2 things in this article.
1 – That this guy has been dissenting in the strongest terms for at least a year, and
2 – That his dissenting voice wasn’t removed until he removed for a completely different reason.
They’re very short sentences also. What else could TP possibly do to convey information to you in a way you are unable to get wrong ? Diagrams on every post ?
June 11th, 2007 at 8:03 pmJune 15th, 2007 at 2:46 am
Wow
June 15th, 2007 at 2:48 am