Iraq: Cabinet Shake-Up Tipped

[ECH1969]

A major reshuffle of the newly formed Iraqi cabinet is expected shortly, sources close to the Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki told Adnkronos International (AKI) on Thursday.

The sources explained that "the Committee for the Eradication of the Baath party will officially require al-Maliki to dismiss the ministers who are trying to re-found Saddam's party, because their behaviour is at odds with the Iraqi constitution, which forbids the reconstitution of such political group."

The ministers who are predicted to be removed from their posts belong to the Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim (a Shiite coalition), the Adnan al-Dulaymi (a Sunni group) and to the Iraqi National List of the former premier and secular Shiite Iyyad Allawi , the source added.

http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politics&loid=8.0.305662421&par=0

[RoseMead]

1. Now, if Iraq can do this, why can't we?

"Three other minsters are expected to lose their jobs because they are considered unfit for the role."

How many people in the current administration, including Dear Leader, are unfit for the role?

[mike_c]

3. LOL-- well for one thing our constitution doesn't outlaw specific...

...political parties. I think the Iraqi constitution is the model that neocons wish they could follow in America!

[endarkenment]

2. "A major reshuffle of the newly formed Iraqi cabinet "

Oh my. The chaos just gets worse and worse. How long has this so called government been trying to organize itself? When was that glorious election of theirs?

"The sources explained that "the Committee for the Eradication of the Baath party will officially require al-Maliki to dismiss the ministers who are trying to re-found Saddam's party, because their behaviour is at odds with the Iraqi constitution, which forbids the reconstitution of such political group.""

Wow. Yeah that is some democracy there. Maybe we should have our own Committees for the Eradication. Sounds like something out of some stalinist hell.

[acmavm]

4. Wasn't the formation of this 'cabinet' going to be the magic

pill that was going to tranquilize all of Iraq? Make it all nice and safe?

I shouldn't be amused but sadly enough I am. They keep saying 'the election will make Iraq safe', then 'this election will make Iraq safe', then 'when they form a cabinet Iraqis will celebrate their new-found freedom and it will be safe'.

What a bunch of idiots. And by that I mean in Washington and in the media

[gratuitous]

5. Secretary of Stinkeye Rice said that very thing

Why, whatever problems were allegedly happening in Iraq, elections and a new government would make everything just as right as rain! You'll see!

And yet the media, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, would prefer to believe and repeat what the Bush administration is saying rather than report what they see with their own lying eyes.

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. Why would we expect anything but chaos?

These people have lived under an "iron fist" for a long time. Why would we think they would just "get" democracy (our style).

It was dumb to think it would work.

[endarkenment]

7. I don't really think that our bushista friends

care much if it 'works', after all a functional Iraqi democracy might want us to get our troops the heck out and might want to have the revenue from the exploitation of their natural resources used primarily to benefit the Iraqi people rather than the texas oil mafia.

[IndianaGreen]

8. This is a purge of the secular factions under the guise

of anti-Baathism. Nothing that stands in the path of an Islamic republic will be tolerated, and the civil war will go on and on.

[daleo]

9. Talk about re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic

Rarely has a cliche been so appropriate.