Quagmire! Quagmire! Vietnam! (Or is it Iraq? With Promise.)
What idiot "progressive" rejects progress for political reasons?
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From Gulf Daily News (Bahrain):
Iraq's draft oil law should pass by a comfortable majority when parliament meets to discuss it after the end of its summer break in September, Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi said.
"The oil law was completed in cabinet... the draft that was approved in cabinet is the one that will be presented to parliament," he said.
"The parliament remains now in recess and will return at the start of September when we will reaffirm that the law will be presented to the parliament."
Looks good, but read on…
The piece ends:
Abdul-Mahdi said that some appendices to the law could be included to ensure the broadest possible political consensus, even though the law was expected to pass comfortably as it is.
"There are some parliamentary blocs that call for the addition of some appendices to this law. Fine, the committee is studying this and the appendices could be included in this law despite the fact that if the voting took place in parliament now... the law would be expected to pass with a comfortable majority," Abdul-Mahdi said.
"But in the interests of national consensus, it is seen that their addition would be more beneficial and get a higher level of consensus than the comfortable majority that would be expected if it was presented now."
They're at a business conference in Dubai, where Iraq's business leaders are meeting with their international counterparts.
And the UAE is going to help the Iraqis to obtain global investment:
The UAE will play a major role in channelising regional and international private investments to Iraq, Sultan Bin Saeed Al Mansouri, UAE Minister of Development and Public Sector said yesterday.
Addressing an Iraqi business delegation headed by Iraq's Vice-President Adel Abdul Mehdi, Al Mansouri said the UAE continues to have strong economic, political and cultural ties with Iraq and will help the nation develop its government and business infrastructure.
Involving the neighbors. The military component of the war can be won, of course, and we have just seen that the political and economic aspects can be won if the security and stability situation does not worsen, as would happen with a phased, orderly retreat to Okinawa or wherever.
Heck, they even get their cell phones:
Iraq on Thursday said it had signed 15-year contracts with three companies to provide mobile telephone services, one of the few sectors booming in the war-ravaged country.
Al-Atheer Telecom, Asiacell and Korek signed the contracts with Siyamend Othman, the chief of the National Communications and Media Commission.
"With the signing of the three contracts, Iraq's communication sphere will move from instability into stability," Finance Minister Bayan Jabr Solagh said at a press conference in Baghdad.
The three service providers would cover the country's northern, central and southern regions sharing an existing subscriber base of nine million users.
As the article states, this investment was endorsed by Iraq's "do-nothing parliament."
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to the 15th, what do you all think that will do to the dynamic here at home on the war?
"The nine most dangerous words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help'"
Ronald Reagan
...most Americans will miss the significance, sadly.
The oil law passing is huge. The idea that the law is designed to to be inclusive is .. huger(?).
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pulls off an oil law, what will it do to Hillary given her stance that he needs to be ousted? I wrote about that recently...
http://redstate.com/blogs/mike_volpe/2007/aug/23/prime_minister_maliki_c...
of course, I pointed out that it is totally inappropriate to call for his ouster whether he is competent or not, however if he actually starts to accomplish things, well her campaign is through. Though, it won't be through until she gets to the general election. Can you imagine how often she will be quoted in the general's if he is even slightly successful in anything?
"The nine most dangerous words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help'"
Ronald Reagan
Expect Barrack Hussein Obama to still beat the drum that going into the war was wrong.
Oil law close to being a reality...
A new de-Baathification law in sight...
Al-Sadr ducking for cover for six months (or until Patraeus and Co. dig him out)...
September on Capitol Hill approaches, and things are starting to happen. Good things if your are invested in victory...Bad things if you are invested in the defeat.
Before the celebration might begin, perhaps we should read Rick Moran...
"Again, I hate to be a party pooper, but these laws have been in “draft” form for months – some of them for more than a year. The oil revenue sharing law was passed in the spring and has yet to be taken up by Iraq’s parliament. In fact, precious little has been taken up by Parliament which usually has trouble finding a quorum of members to conduct business."
Sure, it'll be great the naysayers noses in it, when it passes. What will you say if it does not? Perhaps better to remain silent and appear a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. For the time being...
"All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest..."
They're stuck in the mire of their own rhetoric.