Iraqi Parliament To Debate Reply To U.S. Congress On Tuesday
Baghdad, Oct 1, (VOI) – The Iraqi parliament will debate in its ordinary session on Tuesday the reply to the U.S. Congress resolution on the division of Iraq into three Shiite, Kurdish and Sunni entities, parliamentary sources said on Monday.
“The debate about a reply to the U.S. Senate resolution on the division of Iraq will be of top priority in Tuesday’s session,” Dr. Hanin al-Qadou, a legislator from the Shiite Unified Iraqi Coalition (UIC), told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
He expected the reply to be in “the form of a statement by the Iraqi parliament on this issue in view of the fact that enacting a legislation could take a long time.”
He pointed out that the matter does not even require enacting a law because the content of the American resolution flagrantly interfered in Iraq’s internal affairs, let alone its violation of the Iraqi constitution.
Qadou noted that the Iraqi constitution guarantees the country’s “territorial integrity and national sovereignty,” adding the Congress’ resolution “can never change Iraq’s settled national principles.”
He said the U.S. resolution “only aimed to cause Iraq to slide into the pits of a civil war only God knows when it will end.”
“It is the duty of all the national powers (in Iraq) to reject such an insolent resolution and to quickly announce their positions in the face of this trivializing with the sovereignty of Iraq,” he said.
Meanwhile, a media source in the Iraqi parliament said the 11th session of the 2nd legislative term will start on Tuesday to have the first and second readings of a number of draft laws.
Seven clerical and parliamentary powers that have the majority of the seats had called on Sunday for dedicating a session to debate a U.S. resolution that urged the division of Iraq.
The Senate resolution, which won the majority of 75 votes against 23, provides that Iraq would be divided into three Shiite, Kurdish and Sunni entities with a federal government in Baghdad undertaking the responsibilities of border security and management of oil proceeds.
The Senators who proposed the “non-binding” draft resolution considered that it was the “only solution” to grind to a halt acts of violence sweeping the war-scarred nation.
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Tell the US Congress to go fuck themselves. You people run your own country as you see fit.
October 1st, 2007 at 9:28 amI think this is a good thing. It lets Iraq know that if they don’t start getting their political house in order and taking the new strategy seriously then there will be consequences. It is a more relevant position than the “withdrawal time-line” called by those who wish to end the war. Cudos to Biden, et al for pressing the issue. Whatever it takes for Iraqi politicians to act.
October 1st, 2007 at 9:36 amThe problem, Dan, is they are not running their country.
October 1st, 2007 at 9:38 amKipp, I don’t buy that.
I feel they are running their government and your just not hearing about it in the media.
October 1st, 2007 at 11:11 amLft,
October 1st, 2007 at 12:18 pmThey reside in the Green Zone where the media (even the media on the far right) has free access. You are not hearing about it because there is nothing positive to say. They took a month off at a critical time as the surge was ramping up. I have little faith in our politicians and I have even less faith in the Iraqi politicians.
I couldn’t agree more Dan.
First of all Iraq is a sovereign nation with their own representative government and consitution. Under these circumstances no other nation including the US has any legal or moral right to resolve that Iraq divide it’s country into three seperate “entities”.
For the first time in Iraq’s history they have a representative form of government which gives them the unique opportunity in the Islamic Middle East to work out their difference politically rather than militarily as they have historically done. IMO, further dividing the Iraqis instead of building on the new (to them) concept of nationalism can only lead to more violence with less political solutions.
If we forcefully create these seperate entities within Iraq can we truly expect the thousands of years of hostilities between the sects to end because the US or Iraq has drawn new lines on a map? I’m not sure how anyone expects such a move will keep extremists on all sides from wreaking havoc simply becase of these new lines placed on the Iraq map. Should the division fail what’s next? Try to put Humpty Dumpty back together again or build walls between the entities?
Legitimizing the fragmentation of Iraq would play right into Iran’s hand. If taking Iran’s narcistic exteme so-called religious leadership out militarily is off the table to the US Congress while Iran weekly intesifies it’s snubbing of their nose at the UN, the EU and the US, then someone explain how creating a strictly Shia entity, incidently in the oil-rich south of Iraq, would help the overall situtation in the Mid East, let alone Iraq? Who would benefit more from the further isolation and resulting independence of the Shia along with their oil in the south? The Kurds? The Sunnis? Or Iran?
It would serve all of those who seek a divisional quick fix to this millennias old conflict between tribes, religious sects and simple family honor in Iraq to recall the US experiment with politically attempting to create just two seperate “entities” after only less than 75 years of infighting post establishing our US government and constitution. That ended in a full blown civil war resulting in even harder feelings between Americans for decades to follow.
The members of Iraqi’s Parliament don’t perceive the US Congress’ resolution for the dividing of Iraq as an incentive but as an insult. That is obvious from their preliminary remarks regarding Congress’ resolution. I’m not sure if the Iraqi debate will result in a more angry response than already seen but I’m confident the Iraqi Parliament at this crucial time in the development of their young representative government is hoping for our support, not our arrogance. It would be in our best long-term interests to comply with the Iraqi Parliament’s desire by giving the Iraqi government years if not decades to promote nationalism rather than further division.
These are just my ramblings but ultimately any dividing of Iraq should be left to the people of Iraq or it would seem we are no better than Saddam, dictating to the Iraqi people what they will do or not do.
Our Administration and military took out Saddam and his sadistic government and replaced it with a government voted in by the people of Iraq. Now we are slowly but surely helping the Iraqis to achieve stability. As our military finishes up this remaining mission of stability it remains for our Congress to build on this military success with their Iraqi counterparts. Dictating to their counterparts in Iraq how to go about their business is not a good start.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:36 pmKipp:
Even the media on the far right? WTF is that Komrade moonbat? You refering to Dollard, Sanchez, Reggio or Yon?
Or Col North? All of whom DO NOT reside in the Green Zone like your buddies at CNN do.
The Iraqis have every right to run their own affairs without interference from Biden or any other member of Congress. Biden, much like you fucktard, knows nothing about Iraqi politics.
Those people just got started in their new government. It took the US ten years to get it’s governmental house in order. And Biden and the rest of his leftist ideolouges got no room to criticise when they can’t even get their own house in order. At least the Iraqis are trying which is more than I can say for your leftist oxygen thieves in Congress.
And for your information Kippy, the Iraqis are running their country. The US military plays by their rules. Like it or not, the Iraqis are in charge. irrespective of what Biden or any other dumbass politician thinks.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:33 pmKipp, you’re an idiot. There was no pressure put on them by the US legislation because neither Congress or anyone else in the US has the power to break the country up as described in the legislation.
You’re just looking for an excuse to defend Biden because he’s a Dem. And your statement that “they’re not runniing their own country” is garbage in its implication that the US is “running it”. Don’t bother to respond with a bunch of parsing.
October 1st, 2007 at 2:00 pm