More Sunni ministers to boycott Maliki cabinet

[sabra]

Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government plunged deeper into crisis on Monday when ministers loyal to Iraq's first post-war leader Iyad Allawi said they would boycott future cabinet meetings.

The move follows the pull-out last week of the Accordance Front, the biggest Sunni Arab bloc in the national unity government, in protest at Maliki's refusal to address a list of demands, including a greater say in security matters.

"We are still in the government but we are boycotting cabinet meetings. We sent a list of demands to Prime Minister Maliki four months ago but he did not respond to it," said Human Rights Minister Wijdan Michael.

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L06628960.htm

[acmavm]

1. Hey! Maliki didn't accept the resignations of the first bunch,

what makes this bunch think they can quit?

[Eugene]

2. Corrected Reuters story: 4 secularist ministers quit

The Allawi bloc is non-sectarian.

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Source: Reuters

More ministers pull out of crumbling Iraq cabinet
06 Aug 2007 18:56:47 GMT
Source: Reuters

(Releads after ministers quit)

By Peter Graff and Mariam Karouny

BAGHDAD, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri
al-Maliki's unity government plunged deeper into crisis
on Monday when four secularist ministers withdrew from
cabinet meetings, less than a week after the main Sunni
Arab bloc quit.

A total of 17 ministers, nearly half of Maliki's cabinet,
have now quit or are boycotting meetings at a time
when he is under growing pressure from frustrated U.S.
officials to make demonstrable progress in reconciling
Iraq's warring sects.

-snip-

The cabinet boycott means Maliki sets off on Tuesday
for visits to Turkey and Iran this week, with signs he
is losing control of his government back home.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL652372.htm

[RedEarth]

3. Iraqi Political Crisis Grows

Source: AP

BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq's political crisis worsened Monday as five more ministers announced a boycott of Cabinet meetings - leaving the embattled prime minister's unity government with no members affiliated with Sunni political factions.

The Cabinet boycott of five ministers loyal to former Iraqi leader Ayad Allawi left the government, at least temporarily, without participants where were members of the Sunni political apparatus - a deep blow to the prime minister's attempt to craft reconciliation among the country's majority Shiites and minority Sunnis and Kurds.

The defense minister is from a Sunni background but has no political ties and was chosen by al-Maliki.

The Allawi bloc, a mixture of Sunnis and Shiites, cited al-Maliki's failure to respond to its demands for political reform. The top Sunni political bloc already had pulled its six ministers from the 40-member Cabinet of al-Maliki, a Shiite, last week.



Read more: http://apnews.myway.com//article/20070806/D8QRN7980.html

[SpiralHawk]

4. "Oh, um, yeah, well too bad and shit like that. Smirk," - Commander AWOL

"But the lib-ruul media fails to point out the good news: oil and munitions profits are, like, um, Totally WAY up for my cabal of fatcat republicon Homelander Cronies. You never hear about that, and the other good stuff happening. Smirk."

- Commander AWOL

http://images.google.com/url?q=&usg=AFQjCNExILB0sEwxFazc78vzvoCvNeTH3g

[xchrom]

5. powerful iraqis remain confused --

turmoil inside baghdead continues to simmer -- and the september report is going to be just rosey.

i wonder the american troop deaths will be up to when the september comes in?

[CanonRay]

6. This, too, is "Progress"

Kind of, well, er...sort of.

[truthisfreedom]

7. This article shows a different twist, with the suggestion that the gov't is "unravelling"

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/iraq/story/18757.html

Iraq

Iraqi government unraveling as more ministers announce boycott
By Leila Fadel | McClatchy Newspapers

Posted on Mon, August 6, 2007
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BAGHDAD — Iraq's government, already unable to reconcile rival Sunni and Shiite Muslim factions, seemed headed for complete paralysis Monday as five more Cabinet ministers announced that they'd boycott government meetings.

If the ministers from the secular Iraqiya political list hold to their decision, Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki will be unable to convene a quorum of the council of ministers to approve legislation or take other action weeks before U.S. officials are to make a crucial mid-September assessment of the success or failure of American policy here.

<snip>

In Washington, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack issued a lukewarm statement of support for Maliki, in contrast to earlier ringing endorsements from President Bush.

[Doctor_J]

8. Maybe we should bomb them some more

:shrug:

[Knightly_Knews]

9. Five more ministers quit Iraq's Cabinet

Source: The Boston Globe

BAGHDAD -- Iraq's political crisis deepened yesterday as five more ministers withdrew from Cabinet meetings, delivering a major blow to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's fractured unity government and efforts to reconcile Iraq's warring parties.

The latest boycott by the five ministers, a mix of Sunnis and Shi'ites loyal to Iraq's former prime minister Ayad Allawi, followed last week's decision by the top Sunni political bloc to pull its six ministers from the Cabinet. Yesterday's action left the government, at least for the time being, without any politicians from Sunni factions in the Shi'ite-dominated Cabinet.

Legislators loyal to Allawi said the ministers would continue to run their ministries but not attend any Cabinet meetings. They cited as reasons for their action a lack of progress on issues such as the status of Iraqi detainees, the repatriation of displaced Iraqis, and the return of former members of Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party to government jobs.

"This act is not an escalation but it is an objection to what the government is doing," Alia Nusaiyef Jasim, a legislator in Allawi's secular Shi'ite al-Iraqiyah bloc, told the Al-Jazeera television network. "The Iraqiyah bloc participated in the government on the basis of sharing in the decision-making, but the bloc is marginalized in the government."

Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2007/08/07/five_more_ministers_quit_iraqs_cabinet/

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OK so we have the Iraqi government officially dismantling. Can it get any clearer that they do not want us occupying their Country? OUT OF IRAQ NOW!

[Double T]

10. The 2nd fabricated excuse for going into Iraq has fallen apart............

everything bushco comes in contact with is obliterated and destroyed. Another....Failure accomplished!

[Knightly_Knews]

12. So true n/t

[luckyleftyme2]

13. THEY NEVER PLANNED FOR ANYTHING ELSE

It was a move for greed not for mankind.
it's all about control of oil! why do you think there is no electricity,water,or new oil facilities?
definitely not because we can't do it,more like we won't do it!
and prices go up and people die!

[Double T]

16. Meanwhile halliburton contractors continue to do a lot of nothing........

while the American people keep getting the multi-billion dollar bills! What a flimflam job by the caveman in the WH.

[salin]

14. leaving bush with only his third and lamest excuse

that he shamelessly rolled out when Sheehan was camped out in Crawford... "We have to stay so that those soldiers who have already died, will not have died in vain." Leaving unsaid but implied that all who have and will die have done so for Jrs vanity.

[salin]

11. The pubs are in a pickle and not coordinated... some are already spouting

rhetoric to try to push the Sept "progress report" back further with calls of not enough time. Others are clinging to the date as the time that either bush slightly alters his rhetoric to allow for words that include "troop withdrawl" (with NO substance or time behind it) or as the time that they (the pub pols) can begin to decouple themselves from Bush's fiasco policies in Iraq.

The continued disintegration of the Iraqi govt should signal Bushco that change is needed - but instead will likely force jr into an even more instransigent position - and while soldiers and civilians continue to die ... the push to prolong the "progress report" reporting back to later in the year will be the likely bushline.

This might make a few more Hill pubs a little more likely to side with dems and perhaps the Congress will have the size/majority needed to force the Pres to change policy.

[luckyleftyme2]

15. if you think bush cares your in left field

The BUSH,CHENNEY COMPANY CARES LESS ABOUT PEOPLE-ITS OIL BOY OIL!and controling the price of it.

[salin]

17. bush cares.... about protecting his maniacal ego.

as well as about caring about protecting... the $ (the greed you spell out)!

[UKProPeace]

18. But they're so happy to have the "liberators" there

And everything in the garden is rosy.....Just in case it's needed :sarcasm:

[Knightly_Knews]

19. Five more ministers quit Iraq's Cabinet

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[Javaman]

20. So now that all the sunni's are protesting the gov't, wouldn't this beg

the question of how the gov't stays in power?

huh, the august vacation of the iraqi "government" seems to take on a more menacing meaning everyday.