Another Great Day in Baghdad

[Perky]

Sunni Arab Bloc Quits Iraqi Government

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SINAN SALAHEDDIN
Associated Press Writer

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ?SITE=CATOR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-08-01-08-46-28

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq's largest Sunni Arab political bloc announced its withdrawal from the government Wednesday, undermining efforts to seek reconciliation among the country's rival factions, and two bombing attacks in Baghdad killed at least 67 people.

In one attack, 50 people were killed and 60 wounded when a suicide attacker exploded a fuel truck near a gas station in western Baghdad. Another 17 died in a separate car bomb attack in central Baghdad.

The U.S. military announced the deaths of four American soldiers, three of whom were killed by a sophisticated, armor-piercing bomb. Britain also announced the death of one of its soldiers, by a roadside bomb in Basra.

Rafaa al-Issawi, a leading member of the Front, said at a news conference that the bloc's six Cabinet ministers would submit their resignations later in the day.

Al-Issawi said the decision to pull out from the government followed what he called Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's failure to respond to the Accordance Front. It gave him seven days to meet its demands, and the ultimatum expired Wednesday.

Among the demands: a pardon for security detainees not charged with specific crimes, the disbanding of militias and the participation of all groups represented in the government in dealing with security issues.

"The government is continuing with its arrogance, refusing to change its stand and has slammed shut the door to any meaningful reforms necessary for saving Iraq," al-Issawi said.

[SpiralHawk]

1. CHENEY SEES REAL PROGRESS IN IRAQ

Of course, military matters look different to a clown with Five (5) military deferments -- particularly when he is the underling of a Connecticut preppy member of an occult Skull & Boner cabal who deserted his national guard unit to sniff cocaine, and who is pretending to be "Commander in Chief" of our sons and daughters in uniform, and who is supported by a war profiteering horde of chickenhawk republicon cronies, and lionized by a corporate media propaganda machine.

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3. Iraqi and American lives are meaningless to Cheney et al

Anyone or anything standing between them and Iraqi oil will be destroyed.

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2. B..b..but they were supposed to help give away

their oil wealth to CheeeeneyCo!

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4. BUT,,BUT,,,It's Clintons fault