Iraqi Accord Front to make "significant" decisions in days

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Iraqi Accord Front to make "significant" decisions in days -- Al-Hashemi

BAGHDAD, May 12 (KUNA) -- The Iraqi Accord Front is posed to make "significant" decisions on several choices in few days' time, Iraqi Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi said on Saturday, expressing optimism on "the new political scene in the country." During an extraordinary meeting for the Front held today, Al-Hashemi reviewed the results of his meetings with the Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki and other officials over the past few days.

"The Iraqi Accord Front has few days to make important decision over many choices tabled before it. Priority will be given to dialogue" Al-Hashemi told the meeting "These decisions will be significant and will hit the deep roots of the political process, but not at all to rise to the level of a coup as the rumor goes." Al-Hashemi, however, did not reveal the nature of such decisions, nor the tendencies of the Front, one of the biggest in Iraqi parliament.

He noted that during the meeting with the Premier, he found fresh atmosphere that aroused his optimism, adding "there are many steps, requiring government decisions, that will, undoubtedly, contribute to secure success for these meetings and will have their positive impact on the political process and stability of Iraq." The Iraqi Vice-President had last week ended a weeks long boycott with Al-Maliki when he visited the Premier in his office in Baghdad coinciding with a phone call from US president George Bush and Al-Maliki. This was a day before the visit by the US Vice President Dick Cheney to Baghdad.
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Progress reported from the Kuwait News Agency.........:thumbsup:

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Baghdad press: Wider cabinet reshuffle in upcoming stages
By Hamid al-Hamrani
Baghdad, May 13, (VOI) â?? Iraqi newspapers on Sunday said a wider cabinet reshuffle is expected in the coming period in an effort to improve the political and security situation in Iraq, adding that Iraqi President Jalal al-Talabani is expecting national reconciliation to take place soon.
Al-Mutamar, a daily newspaper issued by the Iraqi National Congress Party led by Ahmed al-Chalabi, quoted Ali al-Dabbagh, a spokesman for the Iraqi government, as saying "The current nominees for seven ministerial portfolios can be changed," with reference to the portfolios earlier vacated by the Sadrist bloc's six ministers, who resigned last month, and the resignation of former Minister of Justice Hashem al-Shabli from the Iraqi National Slate.
Quoting Iraqi Minister of State Hassan al-Sari, the newspaper said "The issue of the cabinet reshuffle is thorny and complicated. It requires a great degree of understanding between Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and political blocs."
In an opinion article on the mounting violence in Baghdad, Jamal al-Kharsan suggested moving Iraq's capital to another city. "In First World and some Third World countries decision makers establish cities in the manner of the capital to distribute roles and ease the pressure on the capital."
Al-Kharsan explained that the situation in Iraq is totally different, with Baghdad bearing an exceptional burden in the light of an administrative system and laws based on centralization.
The Shiite al-Bayyina al-Jadida, an offshoot of al-Bayyina newspaper, quoted Amir al-Tamimi, a member of the Arab League's Supreme Commission for National Reconciliation, as saying, "A large Iraqi political bloc that aims to rectify the political process and resolve the governing crisis will see the light of day in the next few days."
Commenting on the long-awaited cabinet reshuffle, the newspaper said that the Iraqi people have reached a state of despair because of the stumbling political process and the Iraqi government, which the newspaper said does not know how to respond to the challenges facing Iraqis.
Baghdad newspaper, the mouthpiece of former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's al-Wifaq movement, published a statement made by Allawi in which he stated, "We previously submitted a working paper to the U.S. administration, which was also examined by Arab leaders, suggesting the convening of a regional conference in Egypt."
On the front that the Iraqi National Slate is allegedly seeking to establish, the newspaper quoted Allawi, the leader of the slate, as saying, "The front we are talking about is inside and outside the parliament at the same time." Allawi called on Iraqi politicians of all colors to take part in the Iraqi national project.
Meanwhile, the Kurdish al-Taakhi newspaper quoted Iraqi President Jalal al-Talabani as asserting the government's determination to achieve real national reconciliation and unity within two weeks or a month. "It is an important step that will encourage all Iraqis to be involved in the political process and to isolate al-Qaeda," the newspaper wrote.
Discussing the formation of political blocs and fronts outside the government, al-Taakhi quoted MP Mahmoud Othman from the Kurdistan Alliance as indicating that forming a wide parliamentary bloc of moderate political parties is once again under discussion. "The United States is urging political blocs to form political groups in an attempt to find an early solution to the problems facing Iraq," Othman said
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Same story with a bit more detail...............

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So whats the progress another cabinet shuffle how is that going to solve the daily bombings?The so called Iraq government needs to get more police more soldiars more jobs for its people more electricity,but like our politicians they just make changes within government that do nothing for the people.

They're in the fetal stages of their democracy.........If/when changes are needed it's encouraging to see that they're doing it.

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And everyone knows you need to give these things time. Unless the shuffle will take place during the 2 month recess Iraq's Parliment has planned starting next month. Crooks and Liars » Iraqi Parliament Planning TWO MONTH Recess

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They're in the fetal stages of their democracy.........If/when changes are needed it's encouraging to see that they're doing it.

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Time= lives, American lives. How many lives are we supposed to give so the Iraqis can have their unwanted democracy. This is just more of the same old bullshit. Untill the Oil contracts are delivered to the US and British, American sons and daughters will be dying in Iraq. Blood for oil, Blood For Oil, it's a fact...... not some political rhetoric!!! BTW, In the fetal stages of our Democracy, it was our citizens that were dying, fighting an occupying force!

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Originally Posted by medicinal

How many lives are we supposed to give so the Iraqis can have their unwanted democracy.

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Unwanted democracy?? Lets check the polls shall we.........

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Unwanted democracy?? Lets check the polls shall we.........

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Yeah, come on, they polled inside the green zone, it's too dangerous to go outside and poll, those polls are a fricken joke. The aversge Iraqi just wants his life back, a job, security and food and comfort for their familys, they don't even know what democracy is all about, only that to achieve it they have given up every bit of their safety and convience and are now in a living hell! they'd trade this life for their old one in a heartbeat. You need to clean that one way mirror you are looking at, it seems pretty clouded to me.

P4B why should American kids have to die if the Iraqis want change then its their fucking job to do something about it not Americas.Democracies are created by their own people fed up with their own form of government it would off happened sooner or later just like it happened in your country.

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P4B why should American kids have to die if the Iraqis want change then its their fucking job to do something about it not Americas.

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The reason we're there has nothing to do with this.........BUT, it's their constitution that was voted in by ALL the Iraqis. We're just helpin' for a time to get things cleaned up until they can do it on their own.....the man said one to two years. The currently have over 300,000 trained troops........it's comin'.

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