New Iraqi cabinet on Saturday BAGHDAD: Iraq's parliament is expected to vote on Saturday on a new government in which the country's main religious and ethnic groups will share power, officials said, signalling an end to months of political paralysis. Iraq's prime minister-designate last night put the finishing touches to a unity government Washington hopes can quell an insurgency that erupted after Saddam Hussein's 2003 overthrow. At least eight people were killed in two separate attacks in Baghdad and the town of Baquba north of the capital, underlining the security challenges facing the government led by Nuri Al Maliki, a combative Shi'ite politician. Parliament Speaker Mahmoud Al Mashhadani told MPs he expected them to vote on a new cabinet in three days' time. One deputy had asked him if the assembly's next session, scheduled for Saturday, would include a vote on the government. Mashhadani replied: "That's what we have from the prime minister's office. We've had a note saying the prime minister wants to present his government to parliament on Saturday." A source close to Maliki said he hoped to complete the cabinet line-up on Thursday, four days before a constitutional deadline. Parliament must approve the appointments before Iraq's first full-term government since the US-led invasion, can take office. With most parties expected to be represented in cabinet, the vote is likely to be formality. http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=143860&Sn=WORL&IssueID=29059
i like how this article or whatever it is with no link doesn't talk about how the person iraqis wanted to be their prime minister was ordered out of office by bush
Weird, Gen. Pace seems to think thinks aren't getting better. US forces cannot withdraw yet from any Iraqi province: general Testifying alongside US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, General Peter Pace was asked whether coalition forces could withdraw within the next three months from any of 14 Iraqi provinces that he had described as calm and stable. "No, sir," Pace told members of a Senate appropriations subcommittee http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/2006051...1ykr0uWtOrgF;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE
I hope this is a sign that things are getting better but pardon me for my skepticism considering how many times we've heard that things are getting better in Iraq and here we are more than three years later with no end in sight of peace or stability.
I hope and pray that the establishment of this new Iraqi government will finally lead to the end of the American occupation of Iraq.
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Well, its a step in the right direction IMO. They had elections, now a unified government representing each of the main groups is forming. Those are two big steps for Iraqis.
