Once again reflecting growing discontent across parliament toward the Maliki government’s attempts to cut them out of major decisions, Iraqi parliamentary speaker Osama al-Nujaifi says the government has told parliament nothing about their plans with respect to US troops staying past the December deadline.
Nujaifi says that Maliki has given no indication of his intentions toward keeping US troops in the nation, nor has he even provided a briefing to parliament about whether or not the Iraqi military is able to protect the country without them.
Maliki has long maintained that the entire question of keeping troops in the nation, beyond a contingent of “trainers,” was entirely up to parliament. Given this it seems particularly odd that parliament hasn’t even been consulted on the matter.
But the Maliki government’s recent attempts at centralizing control, and the comments about “trainers” not requiring a vote, point to an effort to find a way to keep US troops in the nation at his beck and call without what would certainly be a difficult parliament vote.
Ah, America's drive to bring 'democracy' to the world. And according to the precepts of American democracy, the people's representatives in either the US or Iraq will be allowed to vote on this. And you certainly won't see the more democratic step of say putting this deal up for approval by public referendum of the voters.
That of course is because it might get maybe 40% of the vote in America, and probably even less in Iraq. Of course, American leaders like Obama, Bush, SOS Hillary, former SOD Gates and others have publicly stated that American public opinion would never be allowed to deflect or change America's warlike policies.
That's American democracy at home, where the people are regularly told that what they think and want doesn't count. And apparently, we've successfully exported this strange brand of democracy that does the opposite of what the people want to Iraq.
American puppet and America is Israels slave so Iraq real;y takes it orders from the country that made the wear possible trough lies about WMD.