BAGHDAD, July 7, 2007
No-Confidence Vote Looms Over Iraq's PM
CBS News exclusive: The Iraq Project To Call For A July 15 No-Confidence Vote For Al-Maliki
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No Confidence In Iraqi Leader?
A Sunni-led alliance in Parliament plans to call for a no-confidence vote to replace Prime Minister al-Maliki. Lara Logan reports exclusively.
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That has led senior Iraqi leaders to demand drastic change. CBS News has learned that on July 15, they plan to ask for a no-confidence vote in the Iraqi parliament as the first step to bringing down the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
Even those closest to the Iraqi prime minister, from his own party, admit the political situation is desperate.
"I feel there is no strategy, so the people become hopeless," said Faliy al Fayadh, an MP from the Dawa Party. "You can live without petrol, without electricity, but you can't live without hope."
Iraq's prime minister is facing his most serious challenge yet. The no-confidence vote will be requested by the largest block of Sunni politicians, who are part of a broad political alliance called the Iraq Project. What they want is a new government run by ministers who are appointed for their expertise, not their party loyalty.
The Iraq Project is known to the highest levels of the U.S. government. CBS News has learned it was discussed in detail on Vice President Dick Cheney's most recent visit to Baghdad, when he met with the Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi.
Al-Maliki has announced his own alliance to try to save his government, but even his vice president says that's little more than a short-term fix.
"Cosmetic change is not going to serve the interests of Iraqis is not going to stabilize, is not going to improve security , what we need is much bigger that that," said al Hashimi, the leader of the Iraqi Islamic Party.
Leaders of the Iraq Project claim they have the necessary votes to force al-Maliki to resign, but that has yet to be tested in parliament. For now, the U.S. is still standing by the Iraqi leader – publicly at least.
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See all 192 CommentsWOW! What a novel concept! Expertise in the government!
It's our money that is propping up this puppet government, so we should be allowed to choose who is spending our money.
"WOW! What a novel concept! Expertise in the government!"
Posted by NativeWoman at 06:04 PM : Jul 07, 2007
Don't hold your breath waiting for that one.
Incompetence reigns supreme in most Governments, along with self interest, cronyism, and a complete lack of accountability.
business. Now that he has tried to put his cronies
in well paid jobs with no experience into the Govt
we all have to pay. He will dump his Iraq Govt and
blame someone else.
If we only had a no-confidence vote here we could get rid Bush.
Let's change it up a bit:
"That has led senior Congressional leaders to demand drastic change. CBS News has learned that on July 15, they plan to ask for a no-confidence vote in the House and Senate as the first step to bringing down the government of George Bush."
Oh man!! How do we get that instituted in this country?!?! Why can't we have a democracy as efficient as Iraq?!?!
the bush loving south sees that they've accomplished their mission in iraq.
now, they're gathering all their right wing republicans and christian creeps in south carolina...
to plot the next humilliating failure for america.
leave it to those southern creeps to do their worst to america.
war, hate, arrogance, reborns and rednecks...
nothing good comes out of the south!
Now this is the great advantage of the parliamentary form of government. It doesn't invest the chief executive with kingly or imperial authority. Obvious incompetence can be the only thing needed for him to get the boot.
This flexibility comes with no loss of efficiency. Prime ministers named Winston Churchill and Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher, and others, were able to lead their nations in war much more ably than certain American presidents I could name.
America should switch over to that form of government, although the surgery needed on the Constitution to implement that change -- almost a total rewrite of that document, means it's probably never going to happen.
But almost every credible democracy on earth uses the parliamentary form of government.
Of course and why not? This administration has stood by every other incompetent that it has appointed. I hope the American voters have had enough of supporting this sort of incompetent and corrupt government.
Huh ????
This Carter-esque "malaise" at the gas pumps has to be the least of their worries in Baghdad.
it is fascist nazi terrorislam stupid%u2026.
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Banned By PBS - Muslims Against Jihad (PART 1)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2335445831760997064&q=muslims+against jihad part 1&total=38&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
Banned By PBS - Muslims Against Jihad (PART 2)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7786207643716175990&q=muslims against jihad part&total=145&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
Banned By PBS - Muslims Against Jihad (PART 3)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6129847105621338126&q=muslims against jihad part&total=145&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1
Banned By PBS - Muslims Against Jihad (PART 4)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7156783803766167613&q=muslims against jihad part&total=145&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=5
Long lines at gas stations are a part of every day life. Millions of cars traverse Baghdad roads each day. Gasoline is also used for generators which are widely used when the power goes out. Lines can extend for many city blocks, it%u2019s not uncommon for people to wait in line until the following day. Something so seemingly trivial here, is actually a big issue to many Iraqis.
To Iceman: Every other credible democracy in the world indeed has a parliamentary system and only England has kept one intact from dictators. The french, the germans, the italians, all fell to the Nazis. Parliamentary systems have their weaknesses but give me the tripartite system and a constitutional Republic any day which keeps an even balance...the president can shoot hoops with the pizza delivery maids, and not get thrown out, which why we libs love this system.
No, you are a communist!
. Forget about adequate training & equipmemt, they still say "Go With What You Have" -- Trust them
just like socialist...
just like communists...
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Leftist Support of Islamist Terror
Most shocking is the outright sympathy of many leftist-liberals for Islamic fascism. They said little about the murder of 500 Russian civilians, many of them children, but screamed week after week because some Arab savage at Abu Ghraib prison wore a bag on his head. They cared nothing about the beheadings committed by the Islamo-savages or the execution of 12 Nepalese. David Horowitz gives an excellent discussion of who this "Left" really is. He calls them neo-communist, I call them Leftist-Liberals. I'm a classical Liberal myself and I feel it's time to remove this irrational element that has been allowed to poison our good name.
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/list.htm
The Chorus of Useful Idiots
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/thornton.htm
Supporters of Muslim Terrorism on the un-Religious Left
http://www.sullivan-county.com/id2/index1.htm
Exposing Leftists' Radical Islam Connection
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/left_islam.htm
Definitions, Lies, and Losing Your Head
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/def_lies.htm
Shocking (Liberal) Silence
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/leftist_silence.htm
See no evil: Why the Left is blind to suffering
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/no_evil.htm
- We have a lost war, damaged national security, & a President who can't get anything from Russia except a $19 million dollar toilet.
To add insult to injury -- America had to pay the $19 million for the toilet
Posted by j-whitman at 09:23 PM : Jul 07, 2007
try to catch up jihad j...
i am referring to the demonic-rats/socialist/communists/terrorislamists that run pbs...
watch the banned film...
stop listening to your fascist nazi terrorislamic mullah...
The US has raised concerns with the Chinese government about the discovery of Chinese-made weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/82ce0740-2c03-11dc-b498-000b5df10621.html
. You said nothing when Communist China built a truck & SUV factory in T.J. for Duty Free Export into our country.
. You say nothing about the UAE supplying weapons to Al Queda & the Taliban
. You say nothing of the weapons you can buy by the case in the streets of Dubai
it is fascist nazi terrorislam stupid%u2026.
I was a fanatic...I know their thinking, says former radical Islamist
By blaming the Government for our actions, those who pushed this "Blair's bombs" line did our propaganda work for us.
More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=465570&in_page_id=1770
Bless the Beasts and Children
Fascist nazi terrorslam kills every man woman and child in the village again%u2026 typical mo for terrorslam%u2026
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/bless-the-beasts-and-children.htm
thank you demonic-rats%u2026
New Video From Al Qaeda Number Two
"You must be patient and steadfast," he says. "Rejoice, for victory is near, with Allah's permission, and the herds of crusaders have begun to split up and their sole concern has become searching for a way out."
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/07/new-video-from-.html
Sentencing them, Judge Charles Openshaw said the men had engaged in "cyber jihad", encouraging others to kill "kuffars" or non-believers.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070705142313.zr9n5g5g&show_article=1
45 Muslim doctors planned US terror raids
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/05/nterror405.xml
- Posted by doctorwho4 at 08:53 PM : Jul 07, 2007
Not if they're on their way to my house, he can't.
Not that I've ever heard of such a thing as a "pizza delivery maid," much less basketball playing ones.
Delivering pizzas is man's work.
Women just don't have the crust for it.
- Posted by doctorwho4 at 08:53 PM : Jul 07, 2007
The French don't really have a parliamentary system. With them (as with us) the elected President is the one with power -- their Premier is a figurehead and I bet nobody here could even name him (or her) without looking the name up. And France fell with her President but Britain resisted with her Prime Minister and Parliament.
Besides, the initial Nazi victories in Europe were not brought on by parliamentary systems of government. That's "Post hoc, ergo propter hoc" reasoning -- false cause.
- Posted by lars008 at 10:22 PM : Jul 07, 2007
You really should apply to the Rudy Giuliani campaign for a speech writing job.
Those words would make a winning campaign slogan for him in 2008, if he's nominated.
Winning for Hillary or Obama or Edwards, that is.
When did Sweden, Canada, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland fall to dictators ?
Therefore, the no-confidence crisis is not about al-Maliki and competence, at all, but an effort to derail the Shia dominance of government. As street warfare intensifies, this is its inspiring legislative equivalent.
The original problem with the al-Maliki government was not competence, but a concern about legitimacy. When the Sunni boycotted the election, they torpedoed any chance of a truly representative Iraqi multi-party government.
The current legislative impasse is as idle an exercise as the upcoming two-month vacation for the Iraqi assembly. Meanwhile, Baghdad burns.
That would be a good caption for his latest vacation photos.
(cf. Nero fiddled while Rome burned.)
It reminds you of the last time you loaned money to a deadbeat relative.
That's what he kept saying. Just give me some more time, I have something going, it will be okay in a little while, just give me some more time.
And the check may be in the mail, but it never arrives.
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