Iraq
(Reuters) "Iraq's cabinet has agreed a draft law on provincial elections that bans any party from the polls if they have militias, officials said on Sunday..." (All political parties in Iraq have militias. Maliki is trying to find another way to ban Sadr from the elections he'd likely win.)
(AP) Petraeus has been "quietly" visiting Iraq's US friendly Sunni neighbors looking for cooperation. (Condi Rice's job?)
(Aswataliraq) The US has started partitioning parts of Sadr City with those giant concrete barriers. (Unlike some areas, I'm quite sure the Sadr Cityites don't want these barriers there.)
(Reuters) Fighting resumes in Sadr City.
(Reuters) "Iraq will seek parliamentary approval for a strategic agreement being negotiated with the United States even though it expects heated debate over the deal...."
(NYTimes) Iraq has fired 1,300 soldiers and policemen who refused to fight against the Mahdi Army in Basra. ("including 37 senior police officers up to the rank of brigadier general.")
(AFP) Kurdish rebels inside Iraq threaten to "carry out bombings against Iranian forces" inside Iran. (The Iranians see the US as protecting the Kurds and the MEK inside Iraq, groups that are terrorists to the Iranians.)
(AP) Petraeus has been "quietly" visiting Iraq's US friendly Sunni neighbors looking for cooperation. (Condi Rice's job?)
(Aswataliraq) The US has started partitioning parts of Sadr City with those giant concrete barriers. (Unlike some areas, I'm quite sure the Sadr Cityites don't want these barriers there.)
(Reuters) Fighting resumes in Sadr City.
(Reuters) "Iraq will seek parliamentary approval for a strategic agreement being negotiated with the United States even though it expects heated debate over the deal...."
(NYTimes) Iraq has fired 1,300 soldiers and policemen who refused to fight against the Mahdi Army in Basra. ("including 37 senior police officers up to the rank of brigadier general.")
(AFP) Kurdish rebels inside Iraq threaten to "carry out bombings against Iranian forces" inside Iran. (The Iranians see the US as protecting the Kurds and the MEK inside Iraq, groups that are terrorists to the Iranians.)
posted by mikevotes at
7:04 AM
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Iraq will continue to be a mess as long as we pretend the Maliki government is anything other than a tragic mistake of US interventionism.
And Condi Rice's job is to make GWB feel good about himself... to pretend he's both the wise sage, and the varsity jock.
Give me a break. (not you... the Cheney/Bush admin)
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-epm, at 12:31 PM
Apparently the ban on militias doesn't extend to the Kurdish Pershmerga.
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Anonymous, at 1:22 PM
EPM, One of my great, and frequently voiced angers at this administration is the total uselessness of Condi Rice.
People above her, and below her make all the trips. She's been reduced to sort of a more serious version of first lady duty of photo ops.
Anybody wants to talk, they go to Cheney, Hadley, or one of the other State Dept people.
Of course they can't fire her because she;s the only one anybody likes.
....
Anon, of the ISCI and Badr corps.
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mikevotes, at 2:28 PM
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