Thursday, February 28, 2008

POLITICAL PROGRESS IN IRAQ?

Not so much, really.

This may turn out OK if the Iraqi parliament can revise the bill.

Iraqi leaders veto law Bush administration hailed as political breakthrough
By Steve Lannen McClatchy Newspapers

Posted on Wednesday, February 27, 2008

BAGHDAD — Iraq's three-man presidency council Wednesday announced that it's vetoed legislation that U.S. officials two weeks ago hailed as significant political progress.

The rejected bill, which sets out the political structure for Iraq's provincial governments and establishes a basis for elections in October, was only the second of 18 U.S.-set political benchmarks that the war-tore nation needs to reach.

Parliament considered it in a bundle with two other bills, a general amnesty and a budget, and approved it on Feb. 12 in what was welcomed in Washington as an example of good government, compromise and progress toward national unity.

Now the question is whether parliament is willing to revise the measure.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/27/AR2008022703842.html?referrer%3Demailarticlepg&sub=AR

I call you and match you, give or take.

Anonymous said...

http://www.haloscan.com/comments/cernig/1468345404705593148/

you might wish to check these comments out and expand on the subject of Anthony Cordesman as an "expert" on the effectiveness of the surge.