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

[bigtree]

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

[Raven]

1. As if we need another reason to get out of there!

Who the hell are these people? Their country is under occupation, their people are dying, there are no essential services, there is no economy and they are going on vacation??? These guys must be among the small % of Iraqis who want US to stay, if they didn't, they'd be working 24/7.

[sharp_stick]

4. They take their clues from shrub

he takes two months of vacation all the time why shouldn't they? ;-)

[KG]

2. the US is the defacto ruler of iraq,

and bush plans on keeping US troops, which are there to babysit war profiteers not protect iraqis, there till he leaves office. so really what does it matter if iraq 'lawmakers' go on holiday?

[The Stranger]

6. Amen.

The troops are supporting and protecting an occupation government, and when they leave that occupation government will collapse.

[bigtree]

13. It does if the primary reason Bush and others are giving for staying

is to give Iraqis "room to work out their political differences"

In the meantime we're losing over 100 U.S. soldiers a month.

[KG]

14. 100 soldiers a month are dying from US govts decisions, not from anything

iraqis 'lawmakers' are going to do or say. do you think they really care how many of the occupiers of their country are dying? the iraqi parliament is irrelevant except for politcal window dressing. the soldiers are just pawns in a cynical political ploy by the bush admin.

[Lerkfish]

3. well, its not like shrub gets a vacation

:crazy:

and the US isn't defending Iraq's country or govt. The US is establishing and maintaining its own occupation. The Iraqi puppet govt. is irrelevent. Let them take a vacation, after all, what's their kill rate presently? How many parliament members have had bombs go off next to them, around them and underneath them?

:think:

[unhappycamper]

5. ".. agreeing a package of laws, including a bill dividing up Iraq's oil wealth .."

Yea, gotta get that oil law passed.

Aw, fuck it. Let them keep their oil and let's go home.

[bigtree]

11. that's the bottom line

all of this waiting for a 'political solution' which, not so coincidentally involves OIL, is a sham to keep us bogged down there.

[mloutre]

7. WTF?! I guess our buddy GV's latest YooToob video says it all, then:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljqv-kwx-VE

[gratuitous]

8. Sit in session of Parliament during the hottest months of the year

No reliable electricity or air conditioning, and the threat of being blown to smithereens at any minute. I think I'd take a couple of months off, too.

[bigtree]

12. sounds a lot like what the Iraqi legislators expect our soldiers to do in the meantime

while they dawdle and feign governing. I'll bet they still benefit from our protection while 'vacationing'

[madrchsod]

9. bush vactioned while the queen city went under water

he read a book and hid out while the towers fell and the list goes on and on...no wonder no one pays attention to him anymore

[bigtree]

10. this is just an invitation for us to leave Iraq

of course Bush and the rest of his enablers don't really give a shit whether they make 'political progress' or not, no matter what they say.

Bottom line is, the longer they can string the occupation out toward the end of Bush's term, the better, in their view. Bush is probably signaling that it's just fine for them to dawdle while our soldiers die.