Kurds Welcome Iraq Partition Plan
Baghdad, Sept 28, (VOI)- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Friday strongly denounced the US Senate non-binding resolution to divide Iraq into three entities, while presidency of Iraq’s Kurdistan region welcomed it, saying this means re-establishing Iraq on voluntary unity basis.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki strongly denounced the non-binding resolution, describing it as a “catastrophe”, calling for a special parliament’s session.
“The senate resolution is weird, because Iraq’s sovereignty, security and political system is an internal affair and no one has the right to interfere in it,” the state-run al-Iraqia satellite television quoted the premier as saying while on his was back home from New York.
He called for holding a special parliament’s session next week to discuss the matter and agree how to respond to the resolution.
Meanwhile, Iraq’s Kurdistan region welcomed the resolution, underlining that this is the only solution for the Iraqi cause.
“People and government of Kurdistan welcome the U.S. Senate to divide Iraq on federal basis,” the Kurdistan’s presidency, headed by Masoud Barazani, said in a statement received by the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
The Senate, at a late hour on Wednesday, approved, with 75 votes for and 23 against, a “non-binding” draft resolution envisaging the division of Iraq into three Kurdish, Shiite and Sunni entities, with a federal government in Baghdad undertaking border security and oil proceed management.
Initiators of the draft said it was “the only solution” to halt violence sweeping the country.
“The federalism does not mean division, but voluntary unity and this is the only solution for the Iraqi cause,” the statement also said.
“Federalism will guarantee security, democracy and freedom,” it affirmed.
The Spokesman for the Iraqi government, Ali al-Dabagh, told reporters that “the government rejects that resolution.”
The Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS) had condemned the resolution earlier, considering whoever backs the resolution to be “traitors of the nation and faith.”
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Just how fucking stupid is our congress?
They think they have the right to run the internal politics of Iraq, as though they have sovereignty over it, yet are wanting to run away and leave it in chaos without the strength to solidify into a functional government.
WTF?
September 28th, 2007 at 2:21 pmCongress can’t even get it’s own house in order, and it wants to tell the Iraqis what to do? Hey Congress, take the log out of your own eye before you try to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.
September 28th, 2007 at 3:37 pm1) Creating a Kurdish state in Iraq is a bad idea.
It will most likely spark a Turkish civil war.
Turkey’s large Kurdish population will want to cesead to become part of the new Kurdistan.
2) Why are 2 of the 3 branches of the U.S. government spending so much time passing “Non-Binding” resoloutions?
September 28th, 2007 at 5:03 pmTalk about spinning your wheels.
You know, I could of used this last night, I had to debate the soft partition of Iraq today…
September 28th, 2007 at 6:11 pmCreating a federal autonomous Kurdistan is a great idea. The US could guarantee Turkey’s security and swing a deal between the Kurds and Turkey and ask the Turks to use oil and Turkish security as bargaining chips. Even in the volatile ME oil, security and money talks and bullshit walks.
The same could be done in the Sunni regions once agin using oil and security as bargaining chips.
The Shia? They’re nuts. Maybe a fatwa by Sistani might calm things down, and cement some sort of agreement with the others. Once again, using oil and security as bargaining chips.
Baghdad could be the figurehead center of government and the face that the world sees.
The divisions would exist, but only politically. The geography of Iraq wouldn’t change a bit.
All oil revenues could then be split three ways and each autonomous area would get one-third of the revenues to rebuild their cities and infastructure, create jobs, pay police and soldiers, etc.
Any sisputes that arise could be solved in a kind of loya jirga in Baghdad. Cooperation would be required for all to profit from oil revenues. Each autonomous areas would retain the power to spend their share of oil profits as they see fit.
In essence the shieks of al-anbar and the tribes in Kurdestan would have the power to determine their own destinies.
The Armies of all three areas would protect each area or zone from the irhabis and the other hajis.
In the case of a war with Iran, they would fight as one nation(the enemy of my enemy is my friend).
Three seperate states, one nation. That’s my opinion.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:20 pm