Iraq national conference on brink of collapse

[floda]

Iraq national conference on brink of collapse


Protestors accuse political bigwigs of have already drawn up their lists for selecting Iraq's national council.


By Sam Dagher - BAGHDAD

Furious national conference delegates accused the main political parties of hijacking a scheduled vote Tuesday for a new interim legislature for Iraq, saying most members were chosen long ago in secret.

Several hundred delegates threatened to quit the conference on its last day unless the voting mechanism was changed, before Fuad Maasum, head of the event's preparatory committee, agreed to put the voting procedure itself to a vote.

"The mainstream political parties have dominated the conference and have already drawn up their lists for selecting the national council," said Aziz al-Yasseri, from the broad coalition National Democratic Movement.

Nineteen of the 100 seats on the council have already been handed to members of the defunct governing council, created by the US-led occupation shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 that included many exiled regime opponents.

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[leftchick]

1. It really is a waste of lives, time, energy, and LOTS of US Tax $.....

The idiots in Washington actually believe that Iraqis are as dumb as the TV news watching american numb brains who believe in these puppets ... :eyes:

[opihimoimoi]

2. A Bad Idea to begin with.....

[acmavm]

3. I am continually amazed that the clowns running this mess think that the

Iraqis are too damn stupid to see what is really happening and that they don't have enough dignity (for lack of a better word) to object when, after they've seen their country blown to hell, they refuse to go along with the program. This is not some third world, mud-hut dwelling, backward nation we are dealing with. The country just happens to be in the place that we have all been taught from grade school that "civilized society" first appeared, the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. And it's not like they haven't had to deal with occupational governments before either. The idiots are here, sitting in the bush* administration, not in Iraq.

Sheesh.

[chuck555]

4. Thank you.

This looks like a good site. always I like alot of imput.

[stickdog]

5. Our Iraqi "democracy" seems to be suffering from rigger mortis. (nt)