“An arrest warrant has been issued for Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi according to Article 4 of the terrorism law and is signed by five judges… this warrant should be executed,” Daham said, waving a copy of what he said was the warrant in front of reporters. The ministry showed taped confessions, aired on state-run Iraqiya television and other local media, of men it claimed were members of Hashemi’s security detail. The men said they had been paid by his office to carry out killings.The identity of the men could not be independently confirmed.
Political tensions between Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his Sunni partners in the country’s delicate power-sharing deal have sharpened during the U.S. withdrawal as both parties traded accusations and counter charges (nationalpost.com).
It'll prove a vast waste of $800 billion this Iraq escapade. Unfortunately, most in charge of policy among Bush's boys at the time when the US got embroiled in the romantic nonsense of regime change, didn't have a clue regarding the mentality of the Arabs in general. They're not like folks in New England, you know. The outcomes of the so called Arab Spring just might get peoples' attention, even in the offices of the NYT.
You see, liberal/lefie types, it's like this: you let Jonny A-rab near a ballot box, 60% of the mad fuckers will vote for other mad fuckers. Oh...and ditto for Syria when they get their chance!
Memo to the incoming Administration of 2012: Israel is the only democratic state in the region and therefore the only sound ally the US really has. Begin an immediate policy towards making America energy independent. Reverse the misguided and fabricated policy of the "two state" solution; because it isn't a solution. Just read the Fatah and Hamas Manifestos if you're deluded enough to think it is. ( Prior to 1967, both Jordan and Egypt rejected it when they could quite easily have done otherwise...besides it's an old Soviet invention which has become the mantra of every anti Israel tosser out there).
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