‘Iraq’s government is at a stalemate.’
By on Jan 18th, 2008 at 9:55 am
‘Iraq’s government is at a stalemate.’
Writing in the Washington Post this morning, Iraq’s national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie says that “Iraq’s government is at a stalemate.” Al-Rubaie writes that “it has been impossible to maintain a political consensus on many important issues,” partially because “the U.S.-dominated coalition, which has its own objectives, must be accommodated.”
View Most Popular
Advertisement
What We're About
What We're Fighting For
What We're Fighting Against
Featured
Subscribe to the Progress Report
Topic CloudView topics sorted by popularity
Afghanistan
Bachmann
Beck
Boehner
Bush
Business
Cheney
Civil Rights
Congress
Corporate Ethics
Dobbs
Education
Election
Energy
Environment
Ethics
Fox News
Gingrich
Glenn Beck
Global Warming
Guantanamo
Health Care
Immigration
International Relations
Justice
LGBT
Lieberman
Limbaugh
Media
Military
O'Reilly
Obama
Palin
Pelosi
Politics
Race
Radical Right
Religion
Steele
Stimulus
Tea Parties
Technology
Terrorism
Veterans
Women's Rights
Visit Our Affiliated Sites
Reports
In-depth studies on select topics
Got a hot tip?
Have a hot news tip? We'd love to hear from you. Use the form below to send us the latest.
ArchivesBlog Roll
Does that mean we can leave now?
January 18th, 2008 at 10:00 amWhat? You mean Bush and the neo-conservatives don’t have the best interest of Iraqis as their primary objective? They wouldn’t put their own wishes and desires over that of the Iraqi people, would they?
January 18th, 2008 at 10:04 am“the U.S.-dominated coalition, which has its own objectives, must be accommodated.â€
If we’re the ones jamming up the works there, the least we can do is bug out and let them make some progress.
January 18th, 2008 at 10:06 amIsn’t a free, democratic, and sovereign nation all about self rule?
Hmmm. Guess not. Apparently only if the US agrees with the results of that self rule.
January 18th, 2008 at 10:07 amWait just a minute there! The surge is working and we won the war and we’ve only killed two or three hundred thousand people!
January 18th, 2008 at 10:09 amSounds like the Iraqis want to purge the surge.
January 18th, 2008 at 10:29 amFunny how lots of political experts here and abroad have been calling for a Federalist solution to Iraq for a long time. now they finally come around to the conclusion! Maybe if they took time to listen a little….oh wait, neither does the US Government.
January 18th, 2008 at 10:32 amIt’s The Iraq Oil Law, stupid.
January 18th, 2008 at 10:39 amIf alMaliki can get that piece of legislative imperialism through the Iraqi Parliament, he’ll be praised as the Washington/Jefferson/Jackson of the Tigris & Euphrates.
If not, he’ll be tossed onto the scrap-heap, and the USers (not necessarily the Busheviks, because they MAY be gone by then) will appoint another puppet.
This is hardly surprising. The current Iraqi govenment is a puppet government installed by the Bush Administration. We all know that if Republicans have a specialty, something they are REALLY GOOD AT, it is stalemate in government. Who knew the Iraqi’s were such fast learners?
If he had said, “it has been impossible to maintain a political consensus on many important issues,†partially because “the Bush Administration, which has its own objectives, must be accommodated.†it seems it would apply to 2007 right here at home. I can just hear Nancy saying something like this. But, when I hear, “the Bush Administration, which has its own objectives, must be accommodated.â€, I want to scream, “yeah? WHY?!!”
January 18th, 2008 at 10:45 amI’m sick to death of accomodating the Bush Administration.
January 18th, 2008 at 10:46 amAl-Rubaie writes that “it has been impossible to maintain a political consensus on many important issues,†partially because “the U.S.-dominated coalition, which has its own objectives, must be accommodated.â€
Ummmmm , WHY ?
Did the Iraqi people get more “purple-finger votes” and agree to that ?
Is Iraq now a US territory ? The 51st state ?
You’re accomodating a crew that was put together by the group that has screwed up your country and occupied your country ?
Puppets shouldn’t be allowed to speak…….
January 18th, 2008 at 10:50 amThe Iraqi government has been in turmoil for a long time – that is why they keep taking month long breaks. And trying to work former Baathists back into the government is only causing more problems.
From http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=140
“The debate over rehabilitating former members of Saddam’s ruling Baath Party has been a major obstacle to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s push to stem support for the insurgency by bringing minority Sunnis into the political process.
A parliamentary session on Sunday adjourned in turmoil after lawmakers loyal to anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr pounded their fists on their tables in protest.
“There are Baathists who committed crimes and atrocities against the Iraqi people and those must be tried,” Bahaa al-Araji, a lawmaker from al-Sadr’s 30-member bloc, said Monday at a news conference.
He complained that the legislation failed to distinguish between Baath members who were forced to join and those who willingly participated in suppression of majority Shiites.
“We have to first compensate the families of those who were killed and imprisoned by those Baathists and then discuss the law,” he said.
January 18th, 2008 at 11:04 amI think the stalemate began when they were arguing over whether to throw roses or carnations at the feet of the US Soldiers as they marched into Baghdad *snark off*
This is what happens when you have people whose worldview is derived from playing Risk rather than actually studying people and a culture.
January 18th, 2008 at 11:18 amSerious question: Are they ever going to have another parlaimentary election in Iraq? Hasn’t it been about 3 years? Or do the current members just get to drag their feet and stay in office forever?
January 18th, 2008 at 11:46 amI think they’re elected for life…
or five years, which ever comes first…
January 18th, 2008 at 12:08 pmSounds like the Shia and Sunnis don’t have the urge to merge during the surge.
January 18th, 2008 at 12:11 pmO’ the perils of being a puppet government.
∞
January 18th, 2008 at 12:18 pmBut Bush is a uniter, not a divider! Oh, wait. He’ll probably distance himself from this man and tell someone to give the opposite opinion, like with the NIE or Dick Clarke.
Progressives and hardline Evangelicals also want to go in opposite directions. We have more in common with the Iraqis everyday.
January 18th, 2008 at 12:38 pmWe got invloved in Iraq either through incompetence or deceit. We are
January 18th, 2008 at 12:43 pmusing the lives of our children as a band aid to fix a problem we never should have made. Bring them home. Bring them home now. The Iraqis will fix their situation on their own terms. Either now or later. We cannot continue to prop up a government that no one in Iraq wants.
http://www.spikesoft.net/blog
Al-Rubaie writes that “it has been impossible to maintain a political consensus on many important issues,†partially because “the U.S.-dominated coalition, which has its own objectives, must be accommodated.â€
Precisely. We send a “surge” of troops to help the various factions in the Iraqi government to begin working together. But, then, it turns out that we’re trying to rig the game so that the Iraqi Parliament defends our interests over their own. And, the nerve of some of those ingrates for not wanting to help us out. They actually put their own people first!
So, the Bushies blame the Iraqis for not coming together, but at the same time they claim the surge to be a success, as long as you don’t take into account the reason for doing it in the first place.
Impeach now. Thank you.
January 19th, 2008 at 7:57 pm