AlterNet: War on Iraq: Majority of Iraqi Lawmakers Now Reject Occupation
AlterNet: War on Iraq: Majority of Iraqi Lawmakers Now Reject Occupation
The citizens of the U.S. want to be out of Iraq and now the majority of Iraq government wants to the U.S. to leave, everyone shares a common goal but the U.S. administration. I guess Bush is
waiting for the next Saddam to come up in the Shite community. With the recent scrabblings going n under the radar, this article made the point on why the U.S. attacked in the first place, “Blood for Oil”
To summarize
Iraq’s separatists also oppose setting a timetable for ending the U.S. occupation, preferring the addition of more American troops to secure their regime. They favor privatizing Iraq’s oil and gas and decentralizing petroleum operations and revenue distribution.
While sectarian fighting at the neighborhood and community level has made life unlivable for millions of Iraqis, Iraqi nationalism — portrayed as a fiction by supporters of the invasion — supercedessupercedes sectarian loyalties at the political level. A group of secular, Shiai and Shia nationalists have long voted together on key issues, but so far have failed to join forces underbanner.Thatbanner.Thatst leader Saleh Al-Mutlaq, of the National Dialogue FroSalehaid,Mutlaqe doing our best to form this united front and announce it within the next few weeks.” The faction would have sufficient votes to block any measure proposed by the Maliki government. Asked about the AmericansMalikition to the growing power of the nationalists, Mutlaq said, “We’re trying our best to reach Mutlaq the U.S. side, but to no avail.”
The coming weeks and months will be crucial to Iraq’s future. The United States, in pushing for more aggressive moves against Iraqi nationalists and the passage of a final oil law, is playing a dangerous game. Iraqi nationalists reached in Baghdad this week say they are beginning to lose hope of achieving anything through the political process because both the Iraqi government and the occupation authorities are systematically bypassing the Iraqi parliament where they’re in the majority. If they end up quitting the political process entirely, that will leave little choice but to oppose the occupation by violent means.
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