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Interesting,
Although many are showing frustration with the Iraqi parliament, as I am, there are obvious problems due to the fact that more than half of parliament are close to illiterate, at least in terms of the minister postions they were awarded. Yes, awarded, that is how the Iraq gov operates, not on an earned basis, but on an awarded basis, and here in lies the problem, so yes, most don't have a clue about the responsibilites they are in power over, and this is in fact the real problem.
As to the Iraqi people as a whole, 70% are illiterate, and many of the educated have left Iraq a long time ago, or were chased out by Saddam, so sorry to disagree, but there is a severe shortage of educated people to put into these positions of ministers and cabinet. Why do you think Maliki is eliminating many of these cabinet postions, there are few who would qualify on knowledge, experience and commitment to fill all these positions. What we see instead is poor attendence, excuses, corruption, traders and terrorists who were given these positions based on sectarian affiliation, not on what they should have been assigned on, education.
Most of these positions are held by non educated people, as in, no college, no experience, etc. It is a joke, and we have all seen the results to date, the joke has been on us to think that new government was formed on logics, not sectarian divide, so again, sorry, we are seeing the results of sectarian divides and the negative impact on government which will take a long time to correct, hence, one delay after another. Heck, they can't agree on when to take a shiite when parliament meets, so until they dump half of these uneducated duds, we won't see faster progress. Heck, how long have been reading about reshuffle? Over a year, and still only hints of it being started, never mind completed. Pretty pathetic to this point, and totally unexpected it was as bad as it is, so here we are, still waiting, and now you know why.
Good luck and health to all, Mike