Baghdad crisis as prime minister struggles to form cabinet (Chalabi in?)

[leftchick]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1582728,00.html

IRAQ is facing a political crisis over the failure of the prime minister, Ibrahim Jaafari, to form a cabinet, raising the possibility that he may be forced to resign little more than a fortnight after his appointment.

Jaafari, who leads the Daawa party, one of the largest groups in the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) that won the January 30 election, has been unable to secure agreement with his rivals over the distribution of cabinet posts.


The deadlock has prompted speculation that he may be replaced by Ahmad Chalabi, a former Pentagon favourite and prominent figure in the UIA; or by Iyad Allawi, the former prime minister, who was heavily defeated in the election but who appears to be Washington’s preferred candidate.

Jaafari was appointed prime minister on April 7. Under the interim constitution, he must form a government within a month or resign.

[KoKo]

1. Well...CNN's "Sunday Edition" has Chalabi as a Guest....so he's probably

appearing to "familiarize" the "CNN Viewing Audience" with the possibility of his "reappearance as the favorite for Prime Minister."

Of course this administration of criminals thinks EVERYONE watches CNN and NO ONE knows that he was supplying the WMD/Mushroom Cloud crap to the NeoCon thugs....but, I think if he's appointed he won't last long, either politically or physically. :shrug:

[WearyOne]

3. unfortunately I don't think any PM will last long. Just heading for

the airport is a life and death situation.

Freedom ! such fun.

[Roland99]

2. I knew it!! And Seymour Hersh was right!!

An Audience with Seymour Hersh - My Notes from His Speech Last Week
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1644477

Speaking of the new Iraqi government, Hersh brought up an interesting point: it’s been five weeks since the Iraqi elections and there has yet to be any sort of decision for the formation of an independent (non-American puppet) government. Hersh questioned why that was. His answer came in form of the current Prime Minister, American puppet Iyad Allawi. The convenient 48% “majority” obtained by the Shi’a in the recent Iraqi election is evidence of the American push to install Allawi in a position of power in the new government. Bush’s foreign policy all but demands a pro-American figurehead leading Iraq in order to obtain a formal request to keep American troops in Iraq. This means the new Iraqi government will, indeed, not be a democratic government but, rather, another in a string of American interventionist results.

[aneerkoinos]

4. The game-plan

1) level Fallujah to guarantee that Sunni don't participate in elections.

2) Just enough cheating in elections to deny Shia clear majority and to guarantee that pro-US forces, Kurds and Allawi, get more than third of seats.

3) Sabotage through Kurds and Allawi etc. attempts to form a representative majority governement, and then force a pro-US PM using bribes, extortion, threats, all the usual methods.

How long will patriotic Shia to see through this and take this shit before they rebel? Sistani underestimated how low the US can go. Had they been smart, they would have started, together with the Sunni resistance, the armed struggle to throw out the occupiers long time ago. The sooner they do that, the sooner they gain victory and can start rebuilding their country.

[Zynx]

5. This is the fifth or sixth time Chalabi was "supposed" to steal the job

Get a grip people, please.