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[Eurasia Review] Political And Legal Obstacles In Iraq | Eurasia Review: Among the most vocal critics are the followers of Shi‘ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr (the Sadrist Trend), the Fadhila Party, and some other Iraqi nationalists, who have accused the GoI of surrendering the nation’s oil wealth to foreigners, and insist that Iraq can develop its oil resources relying solely on national efforts. Hazim al-Araji, a senior member of the Sadrist Trend, said his party might challenge the legality of the IOC contracts, claiming that there had been “great mistakes”

[Spy Witness News] CFR Briefing: Iraq Gathering Political Clouds | Spy Witness News: The more important court decision came shortly before the election when Iraq's Supreme Court interpreted "largest bloc" in the Iraqi constitution to mean the bloc that forms a government majority after the election--not the list that wins a plurality of votes on election day. With that decision, it does not matter whether Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki or Allawi "won" the election by a handful of seats.

[Dinar Daddy's Tidbits] * Frank26 Post: KTF Missions 4/27/10 | Dinar Daddy's Tidbits: وقالت المصادر ان مشاورات تتم من وراء الكواليس بين القائمة العراقية والائتلاف الوطني تتجه نحو هذا التفاهم بحيث يتم اقتسام مدة رئاسة الوزراء بين اياد علاوي من القائمة العراقية وعادل عبد المهدي او أي مرشح اخر من الائتلاف الوطني على اساس سنتين لكل منهما، مشيرة الى ان هذا المقترح قيد الدراسة الان، ويحظى بقبول عربي واقليمي واميركي.The sources said that consultations will take place behind the scenes between the Iraqi List and the National Coalition moving towards this understanding to be shared for the prime minister, Iyad Allawi’s Iraqi List, and Adel Abdul Mahdi or any other candidate of the National Coalition on the basis of two years each, noting that this proposal under study now, and acceptable to Arab, regional and American.وتابعت المصادر القول ان هذا الخيار لو تم الاتفاق عليه فانه سيؤدي استبعاد نوري المالكي من رئاسة الحكومة لكنها استدركت بانه سيتم تعويض ائتلاف دولة القانون بمناصب سيادية وحقائب وزارية تعويضا عن رئاسة الحكومة.The sources went on to say that if this option has been agreed upon, it would exclude Nuri al-Maliki as prime minister, but however he will be compensated for a coalition of law offices of sovereign portfolios to compensate for the premiership.

[The Common Ills] Iraq snapshot « The Common Ills: That since Iraq is governed under Chapter VII, Al-Iraqiah has examined the option of resorting to the international community, including the members of the Security Council, European Union, Organisation of the Islamic conference, the states of the Arab League, to exercise their moral and legal right over the protection of the political process from any injustices, and to form a caretaker government and repeat the elections in an environment free of any political manipulation.                            

[Corrente] Seven Deadly Sins in Afghanistan | Corrente: We are killing thousands of civilians per year, plus non-civilians, plus over 1,000 US troops with over 5,000 wounded, plus mercenaries, plus those diagnosed with brain injuries after leaving Afghanistan, plus suicides which are now probably higher than combat deaths, plus the violence to others that troops bring home, plus anyone damaged by heroin during our occupation of Afghanistan. Arguing that the other guys kill more civilians than we do is not the point, and clearly not a point the people of Afghanistan weigh heavily.

[Iraq and Gulf Analysis] More Post-Election De-Baathification: Another Blow to the Idea of ...: As for criminals, you can find between the members of the government and member of parliament many who are criminal before coming to Iraqi, who plan and did high jacking of Kuwaiti airplane in 1981 to those who organised bombing inside Iraq one of them the incident of tried to kill the vice chancellor University of Technology in Baghdad to those bombes planted in Mansoore street inside rubbish bins killed many innocent Iraqi people, to add to those who defrauded the social support benefits system in their country of exile who got paid while they holding high ranking positions and paid millions inside Iraq like Ali Al-Alaq and Samira Mohammed the list goes on and on just go after them you will find long ugly things…..

[Arab News Blog] Arab News Blog » Allawi's Secularists call for Caretaker Gov't ...: Allawi’s secular, Arab nationalist list currently has 91 seats out of the 325 in parliament, and by the constitution would be asked first to try to form a government, since his is the largest single party. If his party loses 7 seats, it would fall to only 85, less than the Shiite fundamentalist State of Law coalition headed by incumbent Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, which currently has 89 seats.

[The Gulf Research Unit's Blog] Does Saudi Arabia Really Want a United Iraq? « The Gulf Research ...: in contrast to an ideologically coherent and therefore strong minimal-winning coalition of Iraqiyya and SLA), it makes little sense to exclude the potentially most violent element from the mix (the Sadrists) while keeping as a partner a now very small party with more long-standing ties to Iran and with a history of allying with the Kurds against Baghdad (ISCI). The end result might well be the ultimate subversion of the will of the Iraqi electorate, with the marginalisation of Maliki, Allawi and the Sadrists -  all the top vote-getters from 7 March - and a government formed by compromise candidates from the remains of SLA and Iraqiyya and with the Kurds and ISCI in dominant roles.

[P2P Foundation] Cheap Viagra - FDA Approved Pharmacy » Blog Archive » Book of the ...: Of course this leads to paradoxical political configurations which, if we were operating in conditions of national or transnational sovereignty, would result in non-government: consider for example the mix of economic liberalism and neo-conservatism in the United States, or the new white supremacist politics of Howard’s Australia, the blend of democracy and Western fundamentalism in European societies, etc. Vertical aggregates close down the horizontal, ”˜open’ social spaces occupied by self-governing actors involved in transnational governance, and consolidate new hegemonic modalities of power which come to colonise these spaces.

[NewsReal Blog] Allawi's Party Wins Plurality - Whither To Now, Iraq? | NewsReal Blog: As a devout Muslim he fulfilled his Islamic obligation for jihad by subverting American interest in embedding the aforementioned clauses not only in the Iraqi constitution but also in the Afghani constitution as well. Thus, because of this monstrosity, which apparently our State Department is too politically correct to understand the significance of, both Iraq and Afghanistan will inevitably rejoin the global jihad just as soon as we exit each country respectively and far faster and stronger than otherwise.

[Dear Kitty. Some blog] Dear Kitty. Some blog :: Iraq: US massacres at Haditha, Ishaqi ...: Paul Bremer (who U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi called the “dictator of Iraq”) instituted an infamous set of “100 rules” ”” rules that privatized Iraq's state companies, threw open its economy to foreign investment, .

[Change.org's Human Rights Blog: War and Peace] Is the Iraq War Over? | Human Rights | Change.org: It is a very skewed interpretation of Iraq's status if one only looks at U.S. military deaths because the war is increasingly being fought by private military contractors. Besides, if the goal is to build democracy, a lot more than decreased troop deaths is necessary to accomplish that.

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Minister: Kenya's parliament passes draft constitution, setting ...: Kenya unveils constitution to avoid vote violenceNAIROBI, Kenya ”” A government-appointed panel this week unveiled a draft constitution that is part of wide-ranging efforts to avoid a repeat of political violence that saw more than 1,000 people killed after Kenya's December 2007 presidential elections. The proposed constitution could help eliminate political parties based on ethnicity, a step that would likely reduce the chances of future election violence, a political analyst said.

[Export Blueprint] Is this why the libs hate BUSH? | Export Blueprint: For the first time in history, Americans can enter geographic information about where they want to get involved, such as state or zip code, as well as areas of interest ranging from education to the environment, and they can access volunteer opportunities offered by more than 50,000 organizations across the country and around the world. Established the The White House Office and the Centers for the Faith-Based and Community Initiative ”” located in seven Federal agencies.

[FairVote Feed: FairVote Blog] FairVote.org | Iraq's 2010 Parliamentary Election - Part 2: A ...: For this purpose, Iraq was divided into 18 provinces, each of which had been allocated a number of seats proportional to its number of registered voters. The seats won by each regional party, based on its share of the vote, were then filled with candidates in the order they were originally listed.

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