Mood:
happyTopic: Come on, give up power?
Tuesday in Iraq the United Iraqi Alliance (or the winners of the election) nominated their choice for Iraqi PM, Ibrahim al-Jaafari. He is said to be ont he conservative side which could be saying a lot as their conservatives, I believe, make ours look like hippies. Despite that, surely Allawi has realized that his interim job is done now and he can find the next great way to help Iraq get back on their feet, right?
(NY Times)
"Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said Wednesday he was forming a broad coalition to fight for the post of prime minister after Iraq's dominant Shiite political party nominated a conservative candidate."
That fucking prick. what right does he have to fight for a job he wasn't voted into?! Is this his own power machinantions or is this on behalf of the puppet masters who pull his strings, I wonder? Allegedly the reasoning behind this is that Allawi has implied that al-Jaafari may help lead Iraq into becoming a Islamic government. If you ask me, that is exactly what they should have as it happens most of those folks are islamic.
I am supposing he is meaning an Islamic government more along the lines of one like the Taliban in Afghanistan or something?
"When asked if he feared that al-Jaafari's alliance could impose Islamic rule, Allawi responded that he opposed the creation of any form of Islamic government.
``We are liberal powers and we believe in a liberal Iraq and not an Iraq governed by political Islamists. But as a person, he is an honorable man, fighter and a good brother,'' Allawi said."
Ahh, they are liberal powers...I guess 'liberal' isn't a dirty word in Iraqi politics. Of course, their definition of liberal could very well be more conservative than our basic definition of conservative. However, I am only guessing and don't need to further any stereotypes here.
My main problem was that he is making a stink about keeping a job he was more or less given as opposed to voted in so I think it is his duty to step aside immeadiately and let the Shia and Kurds rightfully take the control they were granted byu the people that voted. For some reason that sounds like Democracy, doesn't it?
Posted by Ahlberg
at 11:30 AM CST
