Thread: Iraqi/Dinar News History 2-3-07 thru 3-5-07(at 11:30am cst)

Originally Posted by Hardwood

Excellent posts Adster. I agree totally. We are closer than we've ever been, and I feel that March is the month we've been waiting for.

I was just trying to get on www.uruklink.net but the site is down (again).

While it was up, it looked normal and there was no explanation why they were down.

I lost my link to the laws page. Anyone have it? It's on my PC at work.

There are 2 places I am watching closely. The CBI site naturally, and the uruklink.net site for news of the passing of the HCL by Parliament.

The latter is the key. Other media outlets will run with the story, but it "Ain't Official" until it's published in the Gazette (Uruklink.net).

Have a great day everybody!

Thank you.

http://www.uruklink.net/iqlaw

Iraq joins the World Trade Organization
Translated by IRAQdirectory.com - [03/03/2007]
Greg Howell, official in charge of developing the private sector in the American Agency for International Development in Baghdad, said on Saturday that the Iraqi government has completed the procedures to request membership in the World Trade Organization.

http://www.iraqdirectory.com/DisplayNews.aspx?id=3318

Originally Posted by readytogo

Members of the Shiite Unified Iraqi Coalition (UIC) and the Kurdistan Coalition (KC) as well as some members of the Sunni Iraqi Accordance Front (IAF) converged on the need to change Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, according to a UIC member on Saturday.
"The change of Mashhadani has become inevitable after all the parliamentary blocs gave him more than one chance to improve the way he runs parliament but he does not observe any parliamentary protocols," Sami al-Askari told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
Askari said members of parliament will propose changing the parliament speaker upon resumption of sessions on March 1,
http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules....rder=0&thold=0

What do we think about this?

we thinks they is sneaky is what we thinks...

Originally Posted by Bubba Dinar

If Iraq has met all the Procedural requirments for WTO membership, than they have signed IMF Article VIII which makes IQD fully Internationally convertable.. This is required for WTO Membership! That means IMF has agreed to debt reduction, SBA, and RV!! It's all done!!

I was doing some digging and I think you have hit a homerun here.

Open capital markets are not in Geneva's remit [WTO] -- trade in services more so, but trade in financial services is inextricably linked to capital market openness, which falls under the authority of the IMF. Here is the link you are speaking of between the two agencies.

If a country wants WTO membership then you can't have it without IMF compliance. Both need to be complied with. So, as you say "Iraq has met all the Procedural requirments for WTO membership" then the other must also be true. We can conclude this by default.

Nice work. It has to be all done.

Originally Posted by DinarDevildog

has anyone seen anything about Iraq joining the GCC, the reason i asked is i was watching CNN the other night and they were covering the OPEC meeting and as the camera pans over to the kuwait speaker and he is speaking on the oil topics right on his right hand side is the Iraqi flag and the PM of Iraq. those could it be that Iraq has joined and we havent seen anything on it posted.

and also I recall seeing a articial on menafa that stated the parlament did approve the HCL i am trying to locate it and once i do i will post, it was also on a cople of forums.

AND THANKS TO THE WHOLE ROLCLUB FAMILY FOR ALL THE GREAT NEWS THAT HAS BEEN POSTED IN THE LAST COUPLE WEEKS WE ARE RIGHT THERE VERY SOON I BELIEVE.

before i forget also I have a very close group of friends that have just landed in Iraq and will be very close to Baghdad and they have stated once they are settled in and have their computers online they will be able to keep me updated as much as they can on a daily basis, one of them is a rolclub family member already so we should see some good info from him on here soon.

again thanks ALL

Trade Bank of Iraq - Your Trade and Investment Partner in Iraq

MENAFN - Middle East North Africa . Financial Network News: Iraqi parliament approves new oil draft law

Originally Posted by shotgunsusie

we thinks they is sneaky is what we thinks...

This is for EVERYBODY WHO POSTS NEWS AND ENCOURAGING FIND

Originally Posted by Jola

Victory in Iraq? Give it time

WHAT if we win in Iraq? If the thought makes you break out in a cold sweat, you could be a Democratic candidate for president.

Democratic leaders in Congress have cut and run from the "slow bleed" strategy (to hamstring the war effort in Iraq through restrictive amendments in the defense appropriations bill) outlined by Rep. John P. Murtha, a Pennsylvania Democrat, that I described last week.

But sabotaging the war effort is still foremost on the Democratic agenda. Sen. "Slow Joe" Biden of Delaware wants to repeal the 2002 authorization to go to war in Iraq (for which Senator Biden had voted).

Democrats have invested so much political capital in an American defeat that their electoral prospects in 2008 could be devastated if we win.

And win we very well may. The troop surge the Democrats are trying to stop already has produced a sharp decline in the number of bullet-riddled bodies found in the streets of Baghdad, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.

"Since the crackdown was formally launched Feb. 14, a total of 164 bodies have been found in the capital as of Monday," according to AP figures. "The AP count showed that 390 bodies were discovered in the same period in January."

"The best part remains the return of displaced families to their homes," wrote the Iraqi Web logger Mohammed Fadhil, a Sunni. "More than 600 families have returned so far."

I'm flabbergasted that it took the President until last December to realize that protecting the Iraqi population is the key to success.

Recognition of the obvious has come awfully late. But not too late, thinks Donald Stoker, who teaches strategy at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif.

Most insurgencies fail, and the insurgents in Iraq lack the ingredients of the few successful insurgencies of the 20th century, Professor Stoker said.

Nearly 3,400 service members have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Each of these deaths is a tragedy. But our combat deaths have been fewer than the number of troops who die from accidents when the nation is conducting ground wars. (During the Clinton administration, an average of 939 personnel died each year, mostly in accidents. Since 2003, an average of 800 troops have died each year in Iraq.)

The Bush Administration's mistakes doubtless have prolonged the war. But our perception of failure may be more the product of ignorance and impatience than of the realities on the ground. Typically, it takes eight to 11 years to defeat an insurgency, Mr. Stoker said. We've been in Iraq for less than four.

The passage of time is required for the adjustments in attitude which seem to be taking place among Iraqis. Sunnis had to be disabused of the notion they could continue to lord it over the majority Shiites and the Kurds. And Sunnis had to experience the ugliness of al-Qaeda rule in Fallujah and Tal Afar before public opinion among them turned decisively against the terror group.

There have been major political gains in recent months. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki no longer is using linguini for a spine. The Iraqi parliament has agreed on an oil revenue sharing plan. The discovery of major oil deposits in Anbar should spur Sunni desires for peace.

Democrats clamored for a U.S. defeat during the Civil War. The Copperheads were ascendant until General Sherman captured Atlanta two months before the 1864 elections. But Republicans creamed them when voters thought victory was nigh. President Bush may have his Atlanta before the primaries begin.

If the war is going badly in the fall of 2008, Republicans are toast. But if it's going well, the Democrats will be feeling the heat. So while it might make political sense now for Democrats to want to pull out of Iraq before the job is done, it is a political posture that could come back to bite them.



I THINK THE GREEN PART IS WRONG...AGAIN...

Excellent find Jola,

You really have to dig deep to find articles of substance, never mind the potential of being positive. Reality is something few seem to want to deal with when it comes to Iraq. This is a monumental task to change the mindset in Iraq, never mind create the peace which has never existed between sects for centuries.

Yes, I too believe the U.S. will eventually succeed, as will Iraq, but with so many stupid decisions to this point, it makes you wonder where is the common sense in the world has gone. It was always about money, and always will be, so the sooner the wealth is handed out to the poor, the sooner the violence will end, so we are fianally seeing progress, but talk is cheap, saying the money will soon be in the hands of poor is one thing, actually doing it is another as we have all learned over our few years journey.

Let us hope the talk stops, and action prevails. There is nothing more important than getting this wealth distributed, and it should have been first on the agenda, rather than all the time wasted lining the pockets of cabinet members and parliament. I feel the one major issue remaining is to finally get rid of the traitors, corruption and illiterates in parliament. Again, we have heard about the reshuffle for many months, yet again, talk is cheap, we need to see action. Once this is finalized, only then will we see restoration of value of dinar. This is the last piece in my opinion, so lets hope it happens this week as was announced a months ago.

Good luck to all, Mike

Originally Posted by wciappetta

I was doing some digging and I think you have hit a homerun here.

Open capital markets are not in Geneva's remit [WTO] -- trade in services more so, but trade in financial services is inextricably linked to capital market openness, which falls under the authority of the IMF. Here is the link you are speaking of between the two agencies.

If a country wants WTO membership then you can't have it without IMF compliance. Both need to be complied with. So, as you say "Iraq has met all the Procedural requirments for WTO membership" then the other must be true. we can conclude this by default.

Nice work. It has to be all done.

I'm a woooooootin'!

Accession working parties established for Afghanistan, Iraq
The General Council, on 13 December 2004, established working parties to examine, respectively, the membership applications of Afghanistan and Iraq.

WTO | Welcome to the WTO website

There are still a few steps that needs to be taken. I'm not sure how fast they do their business.

Originally Posted by readytogo

Know what Susie? I really do like you. I believe you are real.

I was being lazy, that's why I asked if you saw anything good in your posts so I wouldn't have to go through them all myself. Forgive me for taking you for granted.

All your hard work and diligence is very much appreciated. And thanks for not being bullied into keeping good stuff from us here at ROL.

Monica

Thanks.