Iraqi Sunni lawmaker threatens to withdraw from parliament, urges moderates to follow

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Iraqi Sunni lawmaker threatens to withdraw from parliament, urges moderates to follow

The Associated Press
Sunday, June 3, 2007
AMMAN, Jordan: An Iraqi Sunni lawmaker urged moderates Sunday to withdraw from Iraq's parliament, accusing the legislature of being a tool of a Shiite-led government incapable of ending sectarian strife and achieving national reconciliation.

"The situation in Iraq is unbearable, the government is incompetent and parliament is just a cover for a political process imposed on us," said Saleh al-Mutlaq, leader of the National Dialogue Front, which holds 11 of the 275 seats in Iraq's parliament.

Al-Mutlaq told reporters here that his party was negotiating with moderate Iraqi groups, including Shiites, to form a "national salvation front" that would work toward ending sectarian conflict.

He declined to identify his negotiating partners, but officials of his party said they include the Iraqi Accordance Front, the biggest Sunni bloc in parliament, and the Iraqi National List led by former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, a secular Shiite.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity, because they were not authorized to discuss the negotiations with the media.



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(and takes the other Sunni's with him)

it will spell the end of the Iraqi "democratic experiment". I'm not joking. Right now, things are just hanging by a thread. Cheney had to jump in a plane recently and beg the parliament not to take a 2-month vacation.

Because the entire operation is a complete sham, and it's about to be exposed big time.

NO amount of begging by Petraeus, or Pace or Bush or Cheney or any of them will fix it this time.
It's over.

Iraqi Sunni lawmaker threatens to withdraw from parliament, urges moderates to follow

June 3, 2007






Bush is now using bubble gum to hold this farce together, just long enough for:


1. the parliament to sign away control of Iraq's oil resources,

2. the new Vatican City-sized American embassy's completion date in September to house Blackwater and the rest of Bush's corporate hogs,

3. for Bush's SirYesSir Generals to proclaim *success* in September.


This is *gumming it to death* until Li'l Boots can wash his hands of the whole freaking mess he's made over the past 6.5 years and skate off to Texas with a refrigerator full of cool ones. And maybe invite ol' Trent over to set a spell on his front porch.

*It's hard werk.*