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.

I realize that our 2 party system of government is considered to be an antiquated system by some, and I know that Dem-Libbers and Repub-Conservatives have their serious disagreements too, but we don’t just throw our hands up and send everyone home for vacation while our entire nation is mired in a civil war and we don’t resign from political office and set off massive car bombs or assassinate government and/or police officials to get our point across every time one of our individual parties doesn’t get exactly what it wants on the floor of Congress…

I read a lot of blogs that tout the need to support or troops AND the war in Iraq, and I fully agree with supporting the troops, the war is an entirely different matter for me, because now this war isn’t about Iraqi FREEDOM as some blogs insist, Iraq IS free, free of WMD’s, free from Saddam and his vile dictatorship and is being run by the very people that the Iraqis themselves elected, in FREE elections, the problem is, those elected officials have NO CLUE as to how to run a nation, and have no real serious desire to bring their warring factions to the table and settle their differences, maybe not settle them permanently, but they could at least settle them to the point that they could put up a united front against the insurgents and terrorists…

And that is the job the U.S. military can’t do, we have given them ALL that we can give them, we deposed Saddam and Sons, we did away with Saddams Republican Guard and disbanded the Iraqi police and we have been instrumental in the rebuilding of the Iraqi government to the point where the effort is solely on the Iraqis themselves…

“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.

“We had hoped that the government would respond to these demands or at least acknowledge the failure of its policies, which led Iraq to a level of misery it had not seen in modern history. But its stand did not surprise us at all,” he said, reading from a prepared statement.

For starters, you might try legislative change, not an across the board DEMAND, you’re a minority party in a nation that doesn’t acquiesce to the demands of the minority as we do here in the USA, you are going to have to become a viable, and valuable part of your government, not some demanding little faction that acts like a spoiled child…

And as for the government continuing with its arrogance, refusing to change its stand, shut the hell up and deal with it, we do every day right here in the USA, we have the most hardheaded president in the history of this nation, he refuses to listen to the will of the people, but we’re not blowing up car bombs in crowded markets and killing scores of our own people in an act of protest, we just sit back and wait until we can vote in someone that we HOPE will be a better president, but it doesn’t always work out like you plan…

The Accordance Front has 44 of parliament’s 275 seats. Its withdrawal from the 14-month-old government is the second such action by a faction of al-Maliki’s “national unity” coalition.

What we are seeing now is the way Arab and Islamic nations take care of political business, democracy is a foreign concept for them, real freedom is an even more distant notion, and Iraq will never become a democratic nation, it won’t happen, it can’t, not as long as Iraq is divided along sectarian lines…

Political differences can be negotiated, religious differences between various jihadi sects, all of which are firmly convinced that THEY are the only one with the TRUE word of God can’t be negotiated, it WILL NOT happen…

Our military hasn’t lost this war, our troops did an outstanding job, as usual, but our president and all 27% of his supporters that still think they can turn Iraq into an offshoot of America, complete with a Starbucks on every corner are as delusional as it gets…

We didn’t LOSE in Iraq, Iraq is merely populated by a bunch of losers, and until THEY decide to change that part of their lives themselves, we have done all we can do, maybe it’s time to let the Iraqis know, we won’t be there forever, they have to help themselves, and sometimes you just have no other choice, they can choose freedom and democracy or they can choose to remain dominated by Sharia law, and THAT Ladies and Gentlemen, is where the battle truly lies…

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Sunni Arab Bloc Quits Iraqi Government

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