Posted on 08/14/2014 12:51:28 PM PDT by maggief
Nouri al-Malki, the embattled prime minister of Iraq, announced on Thursday that he was stepping down after support from his party and associates in parliament slipped away.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
And off to Switzerland he goes
Agence France-Presse @AFP · 20m
#BREAKING Maliki to concede defeat, back Iraq PM-designate, says spokesman
Yeah, that ought to do it...
you can’t stepaside when you are on your ass outside the door from which you have been kicked
Iraqi state TV: Nouri al-Maliki has given up the post of prime minister to Haider al-abaci
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/15/world/middleeast/iraq-prime-minister-.html
Iraqs Prime Minister Agrees to Relinquish Power
And he better be quick. In countries like this, losing power is often a short step to being killed.
Switzerland? I hear they have tough immigration laws.... And they enforce them.
Thank God. I thought he’d pull an uncompromising approach, like what’s popular with the “I’m not voting for McConnell” types and who say “I’ll be better off with the Dems winning than an imperfect conservative.”
It’s where his bank account is.
LOL. Now you’ve done it.
Exactly. With a passel of money I am sure.
It depends on how much cash is brought in...
Okay, 0bambi, you got what you wanted.
Now will you confront the Islamic State, or acquiesce in genocide?
” And off to Switzerland he goes”
With 100 million, or so.
” Its where his bank account is.”
Yep, and a big one.
Now he can hit the fleshpots of the jet set at his whim......the Riviera, San Moritz, Capri, the Greek Islands, Saint-Tropez.......
Maybe we can fix him up with Paris Hilton.
Leni
He was elected according to the constitution we helped them establish
I guess like us they don’t need no steenkin’ constitution
I bet his appproval rating is still higher than Obama’s
now let’s get ISIS into an “inclusive” Iraqi government and unicorns will start crapping skittles
I’ll believe it when Maliki on a beach in Qatar.
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