BAGHDAD (AP) - The Iraqi prime minister and president announced a new alliance of moderate Shiites and Kurds in a push to save the crumbing government Thursday, saying a key Sunni bloc refused to join but the door remained open to them.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said the agreement was the first step to unblock political stagnation that has gripped his Shiite-led government since it first took power in May 2006.
But the announcement after three days of intense negotiations was disappointing because it did not include Iraq’s Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi and his moderate Iraqi Islamic Party.
Al-Maliki has been criticized for having a Shiite bias and failing to stop Iraq’s sectarian violence, which persists despite the presence of tens of thousands of extra U.S. troops.
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Iraqi PM Announces Shiite-Kurd Alliance
Here’s the part that the guys running around crowing about how the surge is working just don’t get, the surge drove the bombers on to easier and softer targets, that’s all, and as long as the bombs are going off in Iraq there will be no peace, and until there is unity there will be no peace, and until the Iraqis themselves stand up and DEMAND that their government unify, and that their government cleanse itself of all the infiltrators that are deliberately spoiling any chance Iraq may have had for freedom, it’s NOT going to happen…
al-Malaki is what was elected by the Iraqi people in the elections right after Saddam was deposed, WHY they elected him is beyond me, maybe the Iraqis were faced with the same situation that we often face here in the USA, maybe al-Maliki was the lesser of the evils, but he has proven himself, so far, to be unable to bring Iraq together in a unified government…
But you know, we don’t have a unified government either, we have, at the present time, Dems, and then we have Dem Lite, the used to be Republican Party, Dem Lite, and the only difference in the way our government is run and the way that of the Iraqis is run is that so far, we don’t have a bunch of insurgent moonbats using car bombs to make their point…
We can surge Baghdad until hell freezes over, we can’t seal their borders, we can’t stop the insurgent bombings, not with the tactics we’re currently using, we can’t secure the entire nation of Iraq for them, hell, we can’t even secure Texas and stop the wetbacks on the Bush plan and I don’t care WHAT George Bush says, we have done just about all we can do in Iraq, Saddam is gone, WMD’s that threaten us are a never was, elections have been held, a government is seated, sectarian violence reigns supreme and it’s up to the Iraqis themselves to fix some of it…
And I am yet to be convinced that fighting al-Qaida in Iraq is doing one thing to make us any safer here in the USA, that’s another one of those Bush fallacies, closing our borders and putting a bunch of ILLEGALS, of ALL stripe, out of this nation, THAT will make the USA a safer place…
During his presidency Bush has done a lot more for Iraq than he has for the USA, and that is a tragedy for ANY American president, especially when you consider the REAL reasons we went to Iraq, and here’s a TRUTH for you, the real reason we went to Iraq didn’t have one thing to do with the War on Terror…
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An endless and dangerous game of whack-a-mole.
“we don’t have a bunch of insurgent moonbats using car bombs to make their point…”
I believe the politically correct term is “freedom fighters trying to throw off the oppressive U.S. invaders.” hahaha. (Insert afp stock photo of flat fatima wailing here)
Our troops do a lot more in Iraq than they are given credit for- and every terrorist they kill there is one less that will eventually try to spread violence throughout the world, yet you have a great point when you say more is being done for Iraq than here. Securing our border and driving out illegals and terrorists would have cost a small fraction of our efforts over there… and the terrorists are breeding here anyway, preaching hatred and death in their mosques, hiding their political and violent nature under the banner of religion.
We really need politicians to start representing the best interests of the American people.