Posted on 04/15/2016 5:21:41 AM PDT by McGruff
Iraqi lawmakers broke into fistfights Thursday as Baghdad plunged deep into a political crisis over how the fractured country should be governed.
The first victim of the scrum appears to have been the outspoken Sunni Speaker of Parliament Salim al Jabouri. But several lawmakers also have been calling for the ouster of Prime Minister Haider al Abadi and even President Mohammed Fuad Masum.
The three are still holding onto their posts, but lawmaker and former national security advisor Muwaffak al Rubaie told VOA their positions “are untenable.”
“Either we have general elections or we go back to parliament and choose a new president, a new speaker and prime minister,” al Rubaie said, adding, “I don’t think new elections are practical now.”
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Obama. What a poseur.
10k soldiers would have kept relative peace and stopped ISIS but if one thinks democracy or anything like it was coming to this land, they were/are wrong.
You can’t force democracy on a people with no experience or history of it in the relatively recent past.
Iraq needs to be busted into two or three countries. The Brits cobbled it together. Never works.
Exactly. The blood of Mosul, Paris, Brussels, Molenbeek is on the hand of Barry, Biden and Hillary. The latest iteration of Islam, the JV - Jihad Varsity ISIS is coming to a locale near you via the invaders resettlement program.
You are correct. Sykes-Picot is unraveling and our best move is to stand back and let it. These states were cobbled together after WWI with no regard for religious, political, or tribal differences.
and they couldn’t care less.
war criminal ######s.
and our people voted for him twice
now RNC trying to rewrite convention rules.
events are unfolding that are unstoppable, I fear.
Sounds like training for the Republican Convention.
Be prepared. Soap box, ballot box, ...
Some will survive.
Fisticuffs are preferable to bombs...
Obama - JV? or cryptoIslamicterrorismHELPER?
Answer: Both
:-)
If it was good enough for Adam's and company....
Jedi.
Bingo! Three countries should work well or at least better than anything else.
The first victim of the scrum appears to have been the outspoken Sunni Speaker of Parliament Salim al Jabouri. But several lawmakers also have been calling for the ouster of Prime Minister Haider al Abadi and even President Mohammed Fuad Masum.
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