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Two Month Recess For Iraqi Parliament?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in General Politics, The World

From yesterday’s Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer:

IRAQI FOREIGN MINISTER, HOSHYAR ZEBARI: Wolf, yesterday I was at a meeting, a very important meeting of Baghdad security plan. In fact, I was the person who raised that issue that although the parliament is the key body that tried to work with us on legislations, on this political plan, their recess is coming for two weeks, and really we should…

BLITZER: Hey, wait a minute, is it going to be — is it a two- week recess or a two-month recess?

ZEBARI: No, not two — I’m sorry, two-month. In fact, the recess is two months. And we discussed that issue. That really this should be cut down to two weeks or one week because business is not as usual in our country.

And we have to rise up, let’s say, to these challenges, and the parliament or the council of representatives who has a key role here should be up to this new challenge.

And this recess has to be reviewed in consultation with the presidency of the council of representatives. So I’m hopeful. I’m optimistic, really, that we will be able to keep them here working and not to go in two months’ recess.

Umm…how about no recess? Not while soldiers are dying (over 100 in April alone) because they’re trying to buy you all the time to get your house in order.

Wow.

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3 Responses to “Two Month Recess For Iraqi Parliament?”

DosPeros Says:
April 30th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Absolutely, Justin. Good post.

That really this should be cut down to two weeks or one week because business is not as usual in our country.

“Not as usual”? What?
Steve Johnon Says:
May 1st, 2007 at 1:44 pm
If the Parliament gets two months off then fine. Let’s bring our army home for two months and see what gets done. If they don’t work, we don’t.
Donklephant » Blog Archive » President To Accept Benchmarks Says:
May 11th, 2007 at 11:47 am
[...] A bit too little, and a bit too late, but I guess it’s hard to continue to justify sending more money over there when the Iraqi Parliament was planning on going on a two month vacation and want us to leave. [...]

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