It seems that recent talks of progress in a possible government forming between the Iraqiya and Iraqi National Alliance blocs has been greatly exaggerated, and once again it seems the blocs may all be back to square one.
As always, the issue seems to be the premiership, as the Iraqiya bloc has relaxed demands for Ayad Allawi to be prime minister but insists it must be someone of their bloc. The Iraqi National Alliance, on the other hand, is pushing for Supreme Islamic Council mainstay Adel Abdulmahdi.
At the same time, the loose coalition between the INA and State of Law appear not to have broken off entirely, with the group agreeing today that either Abdulmahdi or current Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki must be supported.
But much of the INA’s leadership has already ruling out Maliki, as has Iraqiya, and this means increasingly it will be Abdulmahdi or nothing. But Iraqiya has still showed no willingness to back off its own claims to the premiership, meaning that in the end we may have a hung Iraqi parliament and a new election.
The heads of these blocks, are they blockheads?
Iraq must be the most unlucky country in the world. Bet they wish America had never brought them democracy, freedom and human rights!
Of course, the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan must feel the same way!
What type of government or whether Iraq has any government at all should be of no concern to the American people/ The only reason this stalement in the selection of an Iraqi government raises to the level of a national security concern of the USG is because of the stupid, deadly, and costly interventionist foriegn policy of the USG/ The fiasco unfolding concerning the formation of an Iraqi government is just one more argument against the interventionist foriegn policy of the USG/