six ministers will officially resign Monday

[fredgwest1999]

Posted by permit of SaraMiller at another board:

six ministers will officially resign Monday
This Was Being Announced:

The six ministers will officially resign Monday, said Saleh al-Aujaili and Hassan al-Rubaie, both members of al-Sadr's bloc in parliament. They said al-Sadr's 30 legislators would remain in parliament.

Losing the six Sadrist ministers would further sap al-Maliki's already weak government, possibly causing it to collapse. The threat comes two months into a U.S. military campaign intended to pacify Baghdad and bolster the government. Leaders of al-Sadr's militia have been arrested in the crackdown.

Two officials in al-Sadr's organization said the cleric had ordered his supporters on al-Maliki's Cabinet to withdraw as a protest over arrests of leaders in his Shiite militia and the prime minister's failure to back a timetable for U.S. withdrawal.

National Iraqi News Agency


While the PM was saying:

Asked about the government's structure and performance, Al-Maliki says that there is harmony within the Cabinet, and the members of the Cabinet are eager to maintain the unity of the government and the Cabinet, that they are "shouldering their responsibilities," noting that the government is not influenced by "the quota system."

He says the government is facing immense challenges and the public services require time, arguing that the power generating stations and oil refineries need three or four years to build and noting that the Iraqi people perhaps do not know that, "but it is their right to demand services."

Iraqi PM views security conditions, militias, US attitude, Iran | Iraq Updates


PARLIAMENT SUSPENDED:

With six Sadrist Bloc Cabinet Ministers to announce their resignations tomorrow and the growing rumours of Al-Maliki To Be Replaced By Anti-Sadrist Bloc (http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php...rawal_From_Gov or Al-Maliki To Be Replaced By Anti-Sadrist Bloc?)

maybe the holiday is in fact to prevent the Cabinet Ministers' resignations forcing the call for a non-confidence vote on the PM and forcing a new election - where Moqtada al-Sadr could actually win the PM Posting (his militia is powerfull enought to prevent many of the other candidates from even running)..

Scarry!

As then we would have to stage a military take over or us having to declare this exercise in freedom cancelled and declare Iraq to be our commonwealth...

SO MAYBE, this holiday is really more complicated than we thought?????

[Inscrutable]

Things always get worse before they get better.

It will happen just not at this time, 3 more years tops.

[duck2000]

Not That Long Come On !!!!!!!!!!

[rvalreadydang]

Things always get worse before they get better.

It will happen just not at this time, 3 more years tops.

Take that back!

[duck2000]

Go Get Him!!!!!!!!

[duck2000]

Wondering That My Self!

[rvalreadydang]

I'd like to know too, in fact didn't i just put an article in here the last day or two saying rice is still feeling positive? not those exact words but you get the point.

[fredgwest1999]

No...I don't think so! But, it does slow down any attempts to do a reval right now...but, I submit that it would not be wise to sell (get rid of your investment and anyone who says so will probably send you a PM if you agree...so don't)...

This is a power play that in a remotely, fimilar way was the rise of Hitler in the 1930's...Make the government unstable...prevent a REVAl to jumpstart the Economy (he had six ministers in every meeting dealing with this)...and use the political structure to seize power in a "Fair" election...

Firstly, I do not think we will stand still to allow this to happen...if we were...then we should have never came here to start with...)

Secondly, this is a speed bump not a brick wall to REVAL....It could in fact, speed up after the Sadr Ministers have left the cabinet...

So Do NOT SELL/BUY based on this posting...that was not/is not the message presented!!!

Fred

[rvalreadydang]

Rice, and renewed her government's commitment to the success of the political process and to support projects of national reconciliation and the reconstruction of Iraq


http://www.rolclub.com/187212-post346.html

[neno]

Rice, and renewed her government's commitment to the success of the political process and to support projects of national reconciliation and the reconstruction of Iraq


http://www.rolclub.com/187212-post346.html

Glad we got Fox too. Thanks RValreadydang