Politics > Politics-USA > More than half of Iraq's parliament want Bush to get the hell outa their country.
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"Harry Hope" |
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09 May 2007 10:06:21 PM |
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More than half of Iraq's parliament want Bush to get the hell outa their country. |
http://rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Falternet.org%2Fwaroniraq%2F51624%2F
May 9, 2007
Majority of Iraqi Lawmakers Now Reject Occupation
By Raed Jarrar and Joshua Holland
More than half of the members of Iraq's parliament rejected for the
first time on Tuesday the continuing occupation of their country.
The U.S. media ignored the story.
On Tuesday, without note in the U.S. media, more than half of the
members of Iraq's parliament rejected the continuing occupation of
their country.
144 lawmakers signed onto a legislative petition calling on the United
States to set a timetable for withdrawal, according to Nassar
Al-Rubaie, a spokesman for the Al Sadr movement, the nationalist Shia
group that sponsored the petition.
It's a hugely significant development.
Lawmakers demanding an end to the occupation now have the upper hand
in the Iraqi legislature for the first time;
previous attempts at a similar resolution fell just short of the 138
votes needed to pass (there are 275 members of the Iraqi parliament,
but many have fled the country's civil conflict, and at times it's
been difficult to arrive at a quorum).
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Time to pack it in, Georgie, the Iraqis don't you there.
Harry
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| User: "Bill Rood" |
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| Title: Re: More than half of Iraq's parliament want Bush to get the hellouta their country. |
09 May 2007 11:18:14 PM |
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Harry Hope wrote:
http://rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Falternet.org%2Fwaroniraq%2F51624%2F
May 9, 2007
Majority of Iraqi Lawmakers Now Reject Occupation
By Raed Jarrar and Joshua Holland
More than half of the members of Iraq's parliament rejected for the
first time on Tuesday the continuing occupation of their country.
The U.S. media ignored the story.
On Tuesday, without note in the U.S. media, more than half of the
members of Iraq's parliament rejected the continuing occupation of
their country.
144 lawmakers signed onto a legislative petition calling on the United
States to set a timetable for withdrawal, according to Nassar
Al-Rubaie, a spokesman for the Al Sadr movement, the nationalist Shia
group that sponsored the petition.
It's a hugely significant development.
Lawmakers demanding an end to the occupation now have the upper hand
in the Iraqi legislature for the first time;
previous attempts at a similar resolution fell just short of the 138
votes needed to pass (there are 275 members of the Iraqi parliament,
but many have fled the country's civil conflict, and at times it's
been difficult to arrive at a quorum).
Whoa!! If it's difficult to arrive at a quorum, then even 133 may have
been a majorith OF THOSE PRESENT, and in fact PROBABLY WAS, since a
quorum is usually SUBSTANTIALLY less than the total.
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Time to pack it in, Georgie, the Iraqis don't you there.
Harry
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