Majority of Iraqi Lawmakers Now Reject Occupation

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farglebargle -> Majority of Iraqi Lawmakers Now Reject Occupation (5/9/2007 4:39:52 PM)
Majority of Iraqi Lawmakers Now Reject Occupation By Raed Jarrar and Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted May 9, 2007. http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/51624/ On Tuesday, without note in the U.S. media, more than half of the members of Iraq's parliament rejected the continuing occupation of their country. 144 lawmakers signed onto a legislative petition calling on the United States to set a timetable for withdrawal, according to Nassar Al-Rubaie, a spokesman for the Al Sadr movement, the nationalist Shia group that sponsored the petition.

NorthernGent -> RE: Majority of Iraqi Lawmakers Now Reject Occupation (5/9/2007 11:32:14 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: farglebargle Majority of Iraqi Lawmakers Now Reject Occupation By Raed Jarrar and Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted May 9, 2007. http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/51624/ On Tuesday, without note in the U.S. media, more than half of the members of Iraq's parliament rejected the continuing occupation of their country. 144 lawmakers signed onto a legislative petition calling on the United States to set a timetable for withdrawal, according to Nassar Al-Rubaie, a spokesman for the Al Sadr movement, the nationalist Shia group that sponsored the petition. Al Sadr have been calling for this for ages. The worry for the US government is a shia alliance - Iran, parts of Iraq, Saudi - a powerful block capable of controlling the M.E. This is not part of the plan for US economic interests. I wouldn't expect a withdrawal this year or next year. I mean, the US have just built the biggest embassy in the world in Iraq - apparently the size of a small village - they're not going anywhere.

Vendaval -> RE: Majority of Iraqi Lawmakers Now Reject Occupation (5/9/2007 11:57:26 PM)
Well, it is not a good sign of stability when members of the parliament keep fleeing the country.

meatcleaver -> RE: Majority of Iraqi Lawmakers Now Reject Occupation (5/10/2007 12:16:38 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: NorthernGent Al Sadr have been calling for this for ages. The British army has been saying they are making the situation worse with their presence for a good while now too. Only last week one ex-commander who apparently says what the serving command thinks (according to commemntators) said he understands the insurgency and he would fight to his last breath if Britain was occupised.

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