Tuesday, March 29, 2005

And how goes Iraq's new government?

Iraq's parliament erupted in acrimony at only its second sitting on Tuesday and journalists were thrown out after lawmakers berated leaders for failing to agree on a new government, two months after historic elections.

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As the meeting grew heated, the interim speaker ordered journalists to leave and Iraqi television abruptly switched to Arab music. Allawi walked out of the session shortly afterwards.

"You can say we are in a crisis," Barham Salih, a leading Kurdish politician, told reporters.
  Reuters article

Get rid of the journalists if things go badly. At least they're forming themselves around American ideals.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

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