Iraq's President Calls for PM to Step Down

[leftchick]

KIRKUK, Iraq - Iraq's Kurdish president called on the country's Shiite prime minister to step down, the president's spokesman said Sunday, escalating a political split between the two factions that make up the government.

President Jalal Talabani has accused the Shiite-led United Iraqi Alliance, which holds the majority in parliament, of monopolizing power in the government and refusing to move ahead on a key issue for Kurds, the resettlement of Kurds in the northern city of Kirkuk.

"The time has come for the United Iraqi Alliance and the Kurdistan coalition to study Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari's stepping aside from his post," said Azad Jundiyani, a spokesman for Talabani. "This is for the benefit of the political process."

Asked if the Kurds would withdraw from the government if the Shiite alliance does not back them in removing al-Jaafari, Jundiyani said, "We will wait and see." Talabani has made indirect threats to withdraw from the coalition if Kurdish demands are not met.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051002/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_politics_1

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. They'll settle it over a few beers and a handshake

They're easy-going folks.

[ECH1969]

2. Down goes Jaafari and the UIA

It could very well mean new elections.

[tocqueville]

3. reminds me of a story

A guy comes into a bar and orders a beer :
"Can I have a beer before the fight ?"
The bartender serves him and he drinks it in one sweep, then he asks :
"Can I have a second beer before the fight ?"
The bartender serves him a second time then ask him while the guy is finishing the drink :
"But what fight ?"
"The fight that is going to break out since I have no money"

[leftchick]

4. yes indeed!

Iraq is so fucked up even dipshit** doesn't have enough lipstick for this pig.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Good one, leftchick. The lipstick ran out long ago.

[confludemocrat]

5. Unoffficial civil war over; countdown to official civil war

An artificial compromise president with no real attachment to the Iraqi nation is now blackmailing the puppet PM, setting up a pretext to succede from the country. Sunnis trying to torpedo the whole rotten process. Whadda we do now? Stay the course, freedom's on the march!