Support eroding for reappointment of Iraqi prime minister

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Opposition is growing to reappointing Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, just days after he narrowly won the support of his political slate, the United Iraqi Alliance, for the job.

Some members of the United Iraqi Alliance, a coalition of Shiite Muslim political parties, are talking with Sunni Muslim, Kurdish and secular political leaders about voting against al-Jaafari when the 275-member National Assembly elects a new leader, several assembly members from those sects said.

Those who oppose al-Jaafari are uncomfortable at the prospect of a government with close ties to Iraq's conservative Shiite religious establishment, supported by allies of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, and with ties to Iran. Some also think that al-Jaafari dealt ineffectively with Iraq's deteriorating security situation as interim prime minister.

"All this emanates from the fact that we need a government of national unity. We can't have a religious government," former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said in an interview. "It has to be an all Iraqi government. It has to be liberal ... and everybody is incorporated."

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/world/13890393.htm

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1. Bush will oppose this

"It has to be an all Iraqi government. It has to be liberal ... and everybody is incorporated."

just for that phrase:rofl: