'Iraqi President Loses Call for Parliament' Ah yes....

[in_cog_ni_to]

Bush's freakin' Democracy in action. What a disaster the US Government has created over there. What happens now? :shrug:


<snip>In a bid to force a showdown in the dispute, President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, announced he would order parliament to convene Sunday for the first time since the elections in December and the ratification of the results on Feb. 12.

Such a meeting would have started a 60-day countdown for the legislators to elect a president, approve al-Jaafari's nomination as prime minister and sign off on his Cabinet.

Talabani was mistakenly counting on the signature of Vice President Adil Abdul-Mahdi, a Shiite, who lost his own bid for the prime minister's nomination by one vote to al-Jaafari. Talabani had in hand a power of attorney from the other vice president, Ghazi al-Yawer, a Sunni, who was out of the country.

The Shiite bloc closed ranks and Abdul-Mahdi declined to sign, at least for now. In an emergency meeting with Talabani on Monday, seven Shiite leaders rejected the president's demand for them to abandon al-Jaafari's nomination.<snip>

http://www.comcast.net/news/index.jsp?cat=GENERAL&fn=/2006/03/06/339553.html

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Wasn't this one of those "benchmark" indicators for a civil war?

I think so. If it was, it will probably be taken off the list.

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. I think it was too. I haven't heard a peep about this on the news,

so they don't want anyone to know what a mess it is. Another screw up.