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Majority of Iraqi Lawmakers Now Reject Occupation - 5/9/2007 4:39:52 PM

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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.

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RE: Majority of Iraqi Lawmakers Now Reject Occupation - 5/9/2007 11:32:14 PM

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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.

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RE: Majority of Iraqi Lawmakers Now Reject Occupation - 5/9/2007 11:57:26 PM

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Well, it is not a good sign of stability when members of the parliament keep fleeing the country.

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RE: Majority of Iraqi Lawmakers Now Reject Occupation - 5/10/2007 12:16:38 AM

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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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