August 17, 2007


"Iraq's political leaders emerged Thursday from three days of crisis talks with a new alliance that seeks to save the crumbling U.S.-backed government," the AP reported earlier this morning.

The "new alliance" they are referring to is between the Shiites and Kurds in the Iraqi government.

And I may ask: What’s new about it?

In January 2005, when the political leaders in Iraq were struggling to form a one-year government, the United Iraqi Alliance [Shiite] and the Kurdish coalition, which is made of the two main Kurdish parties the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, announced that they came together to "face the challenges the Iraqi nation is facing," in Ibrahim Jaafari’s words. In fact, they came together against the Sunnis, as we all saw a few months after that.

The Sunnis at the time boycotted the elections and the government, which made the government pure Shiite and Kurdish.

Then, the Kurdish coalition and the Shiite alliance came together against the Sunnis and the seculars in the elections in December 2005 and "this cooperation and coalition will not be threatened or disrupted by any external pressures," said Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Shiite alliance at the time. "We will always be together to form a national unity government," Jalal Talbani, leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, said then.

They came together to face the Sunnis and the seculars and force a Shiite Prime Minster in Iraq. And they succeeded.

Now, they come and form a "new alliance?" and they signed an agreement, again!

The agreement talked about "the necessity of working together to succeed the political process and abide by the political process and the basics of the democratic federal system. To insure the real participation of all the political partners in power and avoid marginalization."

But the new alliance did not include the Sunnis or the seculars. It just renewed what the Shiites and the Kurds have been doing in the last four years, run a dictatorship.

The Kurds obviously don’t care about what is happening in Iraq because they have their own separate region. Therefore, the real leaders of the rest of Iraq are the Shiites. This is the new "democracy" in Iraq. The Kurds run their region, and the rest is for the Shiites to kill.

I thought the Kurds were calling for a "national unity government." I thought they made it clear that they were not satisfied with the performance, or lack of it, of Maliki’s government. I really thought something was wrong. Then I noticed something in the agreement:

"And fasten the process of applying article number 140 of the Iraqi constitution."

Article 140 is the one that calls for the normalization in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and other "disputed areas" and holding a census and referendum in the city that would decide whether Kirkuk to join Kurdistan and be the capital of the region, or stay in the Arabic Iraq.

There you go. It’s all personal interests. Plus, Barzani already enacted the disputed oil law in Kurdistan four days ago without even waiting for the Iraqi parliament to approve it, which is what the constitution demands!

Why every time the Shiite poisonous mullahs claim to be forming a "national unity government" they come out and say "we united with the Kurds?"

Who is counting how many Iraqis have died this year so far? Anybody? Because the government seems to be fine with it and doesn’t have time to discuss the security issue.

You know what’s driving me crazy these days? It is that the world is watching like there is nothing wrong happening in Iraq. It is that the U.S. administration is watching this comedy repeated over and over again and acts like it is not a big deal.

What do we have to say and show to convince people that this government is another dictatorship?

What did we get from this new meeting exactly? I really don’t know. Since January 2005, the Shiites and the Kurds have been united against the rest of Iraq. And today, they announced that they are together against the rest of Iraq. What did I miss?

Apparently, Maliki’s turbaned gang announced it: if you are not Shiite, you don’t get to share power. Only the Kurds are allowed in, and that’s because they are far in the north.

I thought Maliki and Talbani said the meeting of the political leaders this week was aimed at ending tension in the political process and try to find a way to solve the security problems in Iraq. I thought they wanted to form a "national unity government."