Crisis in Iraqi Parliamentary Session, Allawi Leaves the Room

[ECH1969]

Iraqi Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi walked out of parliamentary session, which began under the shadow of the crisis over the nomination of the speaker of parliament.

Following the deputies harshly criticism of Shiite and Kurdish leaders for failing to form the government despite that fact that two months have passed, it was reported that Allawi got up and left the building.

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20050329&hn=17965

[bemildred]

1. Don't let the door hit your butt on the way out, Iyad. nt

[joefree1]

2. Anyone who remembers Vietnam and Lebanon should not be surprised

Now wait for the whole of Iraq to get much much worst. Bush should have stayed away from Nation Building. The Republicans are as bad at spreading Democracy as they are at fighting wars.

[Inland]

3. If only the US had some influence in Iraq, we could help.

If only we had been asked to help write their constitution....

[DebbieCDC]

9. Writing Constitutions

We could let the Iraqis use our constitution, we aren't using it (credit for line: Robin Williams on "Real Time")

[Teaser]

4. What a complete clown show.

Someone buy these jokers some big red shoes, a squishy red nose, and hand-held bicycle horns.

[Roland99]

5. You left out the scariest part of that article!

On the other hand, the members of the media following the events of the session were asked to leave and were told that the rest of the session would be held behind the closed doors.


Hmmm

[dhinojosa]

7. Reporters asked to leave = not so great democracy

[moondust]

16. How Republican of them.

They're picking up this "democracy" stuff real fast. </sarcasm>

[Zorra]

6. Maybe Allawi is having second thoughts about the "democratic process"

"I'm taking my ball and going home if you don't play by my rules"

[yellowcanine]

8. More untidiness. Anyone see the TidyBowl?

[VegasWolf]

10. Ahh, poor widdle boosh puppet got feelings hurt. n/t

[thebigidea]

11. he should follow that up by leaving the country, fucking parasite

[The_Casual_Observer]

12. How could they seriously believe that this would work out?

They need a strongman to bring the thing together, to crack some heads....somebody like .....Saddam.

[ECH1969]

13. Interesting

Meanwhile, Iraqi television showed scenes of chaos as deputies denounced the endless negotiations behind closed doors, until now dominated by Shia and Kurds, which have failed so far to produce a government.

“What can we tell the citizens who sacrificed and went forth to participate in the elections?” said Hussein al-Sadr, an ally of Iyad Allawi, current Iraqi prime minister, who has championed Sunni issues and has indicated that he might attempt to lead the opposition to the next government.

The Iraqi people . . . have begun to get angry and have lost much of their trust in the parliament, and are regretting their participation in the elections,“ said Abd al-Karem al-Mohammedawi, a tribal leader and representative from the country's Shia south.

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/904ac7fc-a076-11d9-a3ba-00000e2511c8.html
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This seems to be playing into Allawi's hands, if the Shia and Kurds can't reach a deal in the next two months the UIA will lose pretty much all its popularity and may even split apart before the next elections. The Sunni's also may be the big winners in this current political crisis, because the longer it takes to form a new government the less popular the UIA will be and the more time they have to get ready for the next elections, because they know they screwed up big time by boycotting.

[thebigidea]

14. hahahaha

"What can we tell the citizens who sacrificed and went forth to participate in the elections?” said Hussein al-Sadr, an ally of Iyad Allawi,"]

you mean the citizens who overwhelmingly denounced you and your allies? This is rich.

this is all engineered by US forces and Allawi's puppets - they WANT to stall to get a bigger piece of the pie. i'm sure they're perpetrating all kinds of mischief, telling the Kurds the sort of things that they've been hearing for decades now: empty promises, etc.

[Massachusetts]

15. "Democracy is messy"

-Rummy has it covered