Allawi party to join Iraq cabinet

Iraq's outgoing Prime Minister Iyad Allawi says his party will join the interim government of his successor, Shia leader Ibrahim Jaafari.

Mr Allawi took the decision "because he believes in making the political and democratic process in Iraq successful," spokesman Thaer al-Naqib said.

The secular Shia leader had previously said he wanted to remain in opposition. But correspondents say the inclusion of the Iraqi National Accord in the Iraqi government may help assuage Sunni fears about a cabinet dominated by Islamist Shia Muslims.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4431041.stm

Allawi did nothing for months except suck up to the neocons, justify foreign occupation of his own country and approve of the bombing of Iraqis in Fallujah.

He should be charged with treason.

Will be any different?

The new government is dominated by the United Iraqi Alliance, a slate that won a majority of the seats in Iraq's transitional legislature with a program that included a demand for a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops.

The people who voted for the UIA in Iraq's election on January 30 are entitled to have a reasonable expectation that Prime Minister Jafaari and his government will carry out that mandate.

The UIA publically got rid of their planned timetable from their platform one day after Allawi did the same thing about two weeks before the election.

I am going through a google of "Iraq timetabel withdrawal" and the only person I see rejecting the idea is Bush.

Already one salient difference between Allawi and the UIA leadership has evaporated. The interim prime minister is portrayed as Negroponte’s puppet when he issues statements to the effect that a US troop withdrawal would be “both reckless and dangerous.” But in the week before the elections, the UIA quietly changed the second plank in its platform from “setting a timetable for the withdrawal of multinational forces from Iraq” to “the Iraq we want is capable of protecting its borders and security without depending on foreign forces.” To date, the US has built in Iraq a fragile state whose stewards are afraid they cannot survive in power without an American praetorian guard. The US military, which recently announced operational plans to maintain well over 100,000 soldiers in Iraq through the end of 2006, shares their trepidation.

http://www.williambowles.info/iraq/2005/vote.html

or this article from today

Jaafari and Yawar have ruled out a timetable for the withdrawal, saying Iraqi forces remain weak.

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=32722&version=1&template_id=37&parent_id=17

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I read it as well. I think, though, it's more like the UIA has stopped talking about it.

in Iraq who knows who will actually govern. The neocon finger is busy stirring up a rats nest.

His government exacerbated the resistance. His inclusion in the new government (if true) certainly won't alleviate it.