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Let me set the stage. There actually IS a National Assembly of
sorts in Iraq and they DO have a Prime Minister, Mr. Iyad Allawi.
You remember him. He's the Stooge on the left:
(Stooges Reunited)
So, it turns out that that this National Assembly of 100 members
representing a wide variety of religious, tribal, ethnic and regional
groups -- while not empowered to pass laws as do the legislatures we
remember from civics classes -- voted to elect from their membership
four vice chairs to this electoral oversite body. The results
were not played up so much at the ass-grabbing ceremonies at the Rose
Garden this week.
No real surprise that the Islamic Fundamentalists came in first, but
certainly not the desired result. What was even more disturbing
than Allawi's guy coming in third was losing the the Communists!!
The fascist/Baathists rounded out the group and sit in the
fourth chair. Splendid!
In the September balloting, the delegate from the Supreme
Assembly for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, Jawad al-Maliki, came in
first with 56 votes. This is a Shiite group that Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld lambasted as a tool of Iran during the U.S.-led
invasion of Iraq. Another Iraqi even less attractive to Washington, the
Secretary General of the Iraqi Communist Party (www.iraqcp.org), Hamid Majid Moussa,
came in second with 55 votes. Meanwhile, Rasim al-Awadi, the delegate
from the Iraqi National Accord--the group once backed by the CIA and
whose leader, Iyad Allawi, who was supported by the Bush administration
to become the Iraqi prime minister--came in third with 53 votes. Nasir
A`if al-Ani--the delegate from the Iraqi Islamic Party, a Sunni group,
sympathetic to the Ba’athist-based, anti-American resistance operating
both west and north of Baghdad--came in fourth with 48 votes.
Ain't it wonderful to see the fruits of our glorious leader's efforts
to install democracy in Iraq at gunpoint. Nice job guys!
UPDATE: Ara and Kevin finally took notice of this story. Let's see how lonjg it takes MSM.
