Breaking:Iraqi lawmakers and cabinet

[malaise]

members loyal to Al Sadr have carried out their threat to withdraw from Al Maliki's government. Freedom is on the march.

[Connie_Corleone]

1. Mission Accomplished.

[npincus]

2. where was this reported?

haven't heard it or read it yet....

[malaise]

4. CNN n/t

[npincus]

6. thanks!

:)

[Hepburn]

5. I would like to know, this, too.

I looked around and could not find anything...but at this time in the morning and my age, that does not mean a whole heck of a lot! LOL

Need coffee.....:boring:

[itsmesgd]

3. do we have enough helicopters ready to airlift our people out?

[leveymg]

10. Finally, we'll get the rose peddles strewn at our feet.

Will the last American out of the Green Zone please hit the destruct button?

Is Baghdad burning? Is Baghdad burning? . . .

[leveymg]

7. Three little feuding fiefdoms are easier to manage for the oil multinationals

than one big pain in the ass dictator.

I'll bet this was the gist of Cheney's (still) oh-so-secret energy task force meetings.

[leftchick]

9. I completely agree

will we ever get to see the documents of the meetings? :argh:

[leveymg]

11. After Cheney has his terminal health event.

The Vice Premier had a cold, and died yesterday, Radio Moscow reports.

[malaise]

18. Are you talking about this

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/11/29/russia.illness.reut/index.html

I could think of thousands of Russians who would want Yegor Gaidar dead, buthe isn't ded yet. He destroyed the lives of so many Russians with those economic reforms.

[leveymg]

23. No, hadn't heard about that. Hmm. A lot of synchronicity on this thread.

Can't be long now until we start seeing the corpses filing up in Washington, too.

As there's no mechanism for Executive accountability (e.g., a No-Confidence vote), there will be hell to pay in some other way.

[Jacobin]

22. I dunno

I realize there many who think this chaos is intentional for the reasons you stated. I have trouble with that concept since, under the chaotic circumstances in Iraq it is practically impossible to produce hydrocarbons, much less have the Exxon-Mobils, etc come in to develop more prospects. The sabotage is almost endless of the pipelines and oil fields.

It does tend to suppress worldwide production which increases oil prices, so that would fit the theory.

In any event, the consequences are what you describe, whether that is their intention or not.

[leveymg]

27. More likely the latter theory fits best - managed chaos increases prices.

The managed part is key to understanding pricing in the global oil market, and the timing of political events, such as this.

[smoogatz]

33. Let's see--you've got Kurdistan, Sunnistan, and, uh

West Iran. Uh-oh.

[leveymg]

36. Watch for round two: Turkish-Kurdish War

Of course, Iran will join Turkey in that. So much for hopes of cementing Turkey firmly within NATO and the European Union.

The consequences of this are vast, and perhaps not undesirable if you're Saudi or Iranian.

[smoogatz]

37. Yep--it's already happening.

Watch also for uprisings in Saudi Arabia's oppressed Shi'a population, which could be very ominous, indeed.

[leveymg]

39. No, not yet for S.A. That's part of the end-game strategy.

Gotta keep those fields pumping -- disruption of the Saudi supply would crash the global markets, at this point. All the pieces aren't in place for dealing with that, yet.

Give it 2 more years.

[smoogatz]

41. You assume that the neoconsters control everything.

You're forgetting about Iran, which isn't inclined to play along (hence all the bogus anti-Iran hysteria). If there's all-out sectarian warfare between Sunni and Shi'a in Iraq, it WILL spill over into SA--it's just a matter of time.

[leveymg]

43. No, I don't assume the neocons are in control. This is>

Either we get that thing under control, or it's going to roll over everyone, America included.

[Hepburn]

8. The "developing" banner from the top of the CNN home page:

Lawmakers and cabinet ministers loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have suspended their membership in Iraq's government because of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's summit with President Bush, The Associated Press reports.

http://www.cnn.com/

[qanda]

12. I saw this on CNN

And came here looking for the story. I was surprised to not see it in LBN.

[Nimrod2005]

13. Is Cluster Fuck one word or two? It is going to be used alot, learn the correct spelling...

[malaise]

14. For real

Maliki is a walking dead man. He won't know whether Bushco or Al Sadr arranged his exit.

[lapfog_1]

15. al-Maliki won't be retuning to Iraq

just a prediction. He'll find some pretense or other to either stay in Jordan or visit Tehran.

Something like that.

If he does return, it will be only a matter of time before he is arrested or killed by someone.

[malaise]

17. Great minds think alike

Check the timing of our posts. :D

[lapfog_1]

19. I've been thinking this for a while.. that the next time Maliki

left Iraq, he would be ousted. But then, unlike the Thailand situation, this will not be a bloodless coup, which is why he would likely be killed or at least arrested if he returns.

Two lame ducks meeting in Jordan about a war that neither of them have to power to stop or even slow down anymore. And Bush is too stubborn and too stupid to now remove our troops from harm's way.

[malaise]

29. 100% correct n/t

[leftchick]

16. on Yahoo now: "Al-Sadr loyalists boycott Iraq government "

Ruh-Roh!

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Lawmakers and cabinet ministers loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have suspended participation in parliament and the government to protest Prime minister Nouri al-Maliki's summit with U.S. President George W. Bush.

A statement issued Wednesday by the 30 lawmakers and five Cabinet ministers said their action was necessary because the meeting constituted a "provocation to the feelings of the Iraqi people and a violation of their constitutional rights." The statement did not explain that claim.

Al-Maliki and Bush are meeting in Amman, the Jordanian capital, Wednesday and Thursday looking for ways to end the violence in Iraq.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061129/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[originalpckelly]

20. I think Bush is in some deep Scooby shit.(nt)

[leveymg]

28. Cheney goes first.

They have to appoint the Chosen One (McCain) as VP before they dump Shrub.

[originalpckelly]

31. Yep...

and if they do it next year, McCain will be able to run for two more terms. (If a VP becomes President he may run for President a second time if the term he filled for the preceeding President did not have more than two years in it.)

[leveymg]

34. To complete the process, Lieberman jumps ship, handing the Senate

back to them for the next two years.

Call it, "Mission Accomplished". Indeed.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

21. the headline should read; Iraqi lawmakers and cabinet BREAKING!

Mission accomplished indeed.

[malaise]

24. LOL

Discussion on CNN now.

[Schema Thing]

25. I love the "omnipotence theorist" above

No matter what happens, there is a sheet of tinfoil that will cover it and conform perfectly to it. The allpowerfulomnipotentcheneyites have things under control, no matter how out of control things get.



sheesh! grow a brain morans, or we're screwn. I'm series.

[originalpckelly]

32. Quit throwing asparagus at America!

Why do you hate America?

[leveymg]

35. They do play chess. They are past Grand Masters at it.

They didn't get into power without contingency plans for how to keep it in the event of "worst case" scenarios, if indeed that's what this really is.

Not tin-foil, just Kremlin Watching.

[leveymg]

38. Cheney's toast, anyway.

He's outlived his usefulness, and wasn't really the Brains behind the outfit, anyway.

That lives in a Houston glass tower.

[mom cat]

40. There you go casting asparagus again.

I am really skewered!

[dapper]

26. we need to get these ass clowns out of office.

that's about all I wanted to say.

Dapper

[cal04]

30. Al-Sadr loyalists boycott Iraq government

Lawmakers and cabinet ministers loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have suspended participation in parliament and the government to protest Prime minister Nouri al-Maliki's summit with U.S. President George W. Bush

A statement issued Wednesday by the 30 lawmakers and five Cabinet ministers said their action was necessary because the meeting constituted a "provocation to the feelings of the Iraqi people and a violation of their constitutional rights." The statement did not explain that claim.

Al-Maliki and Bush are meeting in Amman, the Jordanian capital, Wednesday and Thursday looking for ways to end the violence in Iraq.

Meanwhile, fierce fighting on Wednesday between coalition forces and insurgents shut down the city of Baqouba, which has been roiled by violence in recent days, killing scores of militants and civilians.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061129/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[Little Wing]

42. I think their membership was only symbolic from the start nt