For shit sakes, well over 3000 Americans gave their lives defending you and your government [View All]

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The least you can do is get on with all of the political nonsense Bush says he's waiting for. These troops fighting and dying for you won't have any chance for a vacation like you and your cabal are planning. Goddamn right we should have a say in that.


Iraq MPs weigh short recess, irked at US pressure

By Aseel Kami and Ahmed Rasheed

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi lawmakers said on Sunday they might shorten their two-month summer recess to try to pass laws aimed at easing sectarian tensions, but bridled at growing U.S. pressure for them to scrap the holiday.

During a visit to Baghdad last month, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he hoped parliament would not go into recess without agreeing a package of laws, including a bill dividing up Iraq's oil wealth and a measure to reverse a ban on former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party from public life.

"If there is a need ... parliament should cancel the holiday or reduce it," said Mahmoud Othman, a Kurdish legislator.

"As for the American intervention, I reject this. It is unreasonable and unacceptable."

Nassar al-Rubaie, head of the parliamentary movement of anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, said his bloc agreed the holiday could either be cancelled or shortened.

"For the interests of the Iraqi people I think we should cancel it but not as a response to the American Congress," he told Reuters.

more: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/5/6/worldupdates/2007-05-06T152804Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-296923-1&sec=Worldupdates