Long, long, long overdue...
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Posted on 08/01/2010 6:32:11 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
Sadrists' stance comes after a five-month political stalemate that threatens to leave Iraq leaderless
The followers of Muqtada al-Sadr, who form a king-making bloc in the next Iraqi government, have confirmed they will not accept Prime Minister Nour al-Maliki's candidacy for a second term as leader.
The move effectively ends the career of the US-backed incumbent. The Sadrists' stance comes after a five-month political stalemate that threatens to leave Iraq leaderless, as the remaining 15,000 or so US forces leave the country ahead of a 31 August deadline.
The move is seen as a potential breakthrough in the destabilising deadlock that many believe has led to a steady increase in violence. The decision was confirmed today by the head of the Sadrist political bloc, Nassar al-Rubaie. He said he had told Maliki that he would have to leave his post in order for the Sadrists to maintain support for his party in an eventual coalition government.
Without the support of the Sadrists, who are led by the exiled anti-western cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, neither of the two biggest rival political blocs would be unlikely to be able to form a government. This includes the head of the Iraqiya Alliance, Iyad Allawi, who last month courted al-Sadr's support in a public meeting in the Syrian capital, Damascus.
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Mooki is still around? Can’t the US arrange for an “accident”?
There is a chance that we shed American blood to remove the secular Muslim and amateur terrorist supporter Saddam Hussein and will now hand the country over to an Iranian style Muslim theocracy.
It was handed over to pro-Iran Shi’ite Muslim regime as a result of the first free election (so uncritically praised by many defenders of this quagmire)>
Freedom does not work in Muzziville,
Long, long, long overdue...
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The followers of Muqtada al-Sadr
Right, Judeo-Christian culture and government compared to Islamic culture and government are 180 degrees out of phase. They mix as well as oil and water does. Even the quiet moderate mulism will be nice until they are 51% and take control. Just look at what happen in Dearborn-a-stan.
They would chop of Christians’ heads if they thought they could get away with it. Europe will get the royal muzzie treatment first because of the low birth rate of europeans and the high bith rate of muzzies. As soon as the muzzies take over England or France we’ll see a real blood bath.
That’s democracy, and we may regret it soon.
Another Hezbollah in the making.
Iraq was handed over to Islam by the fact that its Constitution, which we approved, enshrines Islam and sharia and specifies that nothing shall conflict with Islam. The particular flavor that comes out of an election, that is, Sunni or Shiite, is just a detail.
I will never be able to figure out why we took a country which was actually quite secular by that time and replaced a garden variety dictator with the most dictatorial system of all. We made that country safe for our mortal enemy, Islam.
Under their constitution, the only right they have is to be subjects of Islam.
Allawi as PM is my bet.
Chalabi has caused most of the problems and should be dumped
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LH03Ak02.html
I read a book called Shadow Warriors: The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender by Ken Timmerman. In it he asserts that the Bush hating liberals in the CIA and State Department did all they could to sabotage Chalabi (along with the rest of the Iraq war effort) and they were very effective.
Where does Chalabi fit in the current discussion? He seems more like a historical figure at this point.
It could be Allawi or even Adel Abdul Mehdi, who is backed by Hakim's group, although I cant imagine an alliance there.
If Maliki is dumped by State of Law, then maybe something interesting could happen.. But what a mess..
Your take on current events?
He spends a lot of time in Qom, Iran these days.
The Sadrists are making a lot of noise and their deranged leader is encouraging them from his hidey-hole in Iran.
However, the majority of the people don't want that brand of leadership.
What a lot of people forget is that Iraq was largely secular under Saddam Hussein. Women are not required to cover up, can vote and hold public office (and they do), alcohol is legal and liquor stores, bars and dance clubs are not uncommon in the big cities.
In my own opinion, the best-case scenario would be Allawi assuming the PM position. He is a secular Shia and western-friendly. He won a very close national election last March and has already shown that he has the ability to govern when he was the provisional leader from '04 to '05.
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