Reply #28: August 26, 2005 - "Iraq on brink of meltdown" [View All]

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Iraq on brink of meltdown

by Oliver Poole in Baghdad

The credibility of Iraq's political process was in danger last night as parliament again failed to vote on a draft constitution which a Sunni politician said was "fit only for the bin". The government had earlier announced plans to bypass parliament in an attempt to push through the document.



Supporters of Moqtada al-Sadr at a demonstration

But as the final hours ran out before the deadline for approving the constitution, Hajim al-Hassani, the speaker of the parliament, appeared to overrule the country's leaders by insisting that negotiations would continue today, meaning that the deadline would be missed for the third time.

The impression of growing crisis in Iraq was reinforced when a new front erupted in the violent rebellion, with Shia Muslims fighting each other with guns and rocket-propelled grenades.

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The drafting began amid the optimism engendered by January's successful elections, when Iraqis turned out to vote in defiance of bombers and gunmen. But US hopes of establishing the first secular democracy in the Arab world have foundered on ethnic and religious divisions.

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Link:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/26/wirq26.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/08/26/ixportaltop.html

My fellow Americans, the VIPS memos are dated February 7, 2003 and March 18, 2003.

When Bush declared Mission Accomplished and "bring it on" -- he lied and then he asked for something no responsible Commander-in-Chief or military leader would ever request from an enemy.

We now have ample evidence of not just the ongoing deception, but of the failed and negligent performance of an executive and his management team.

Any American wanting to wait for the vote in 2006, should get their butt on an airplane to Iraq and take the place of one of the soldiers.

What every American should be doing is demanding the immediate resignation of Bush and his entire executive team. NOW.

What we then do to them, before the law, is a separate matter from the fact that they work for us and they have failed, catastrophically.


Peace.