Trackbacked by The Thunder Run – Web Reconnaissance for 05/11/2007
A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention.

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Found it, here’s the link

http://tinyurl.com/2zycvs

n Baghdad, the Sadrist block has pushed a draft bill through parliament calling for “a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops and a freeze on the number of foreign troops already in the country.” The parliament would also have to approve the UN mission in Iraq, which expires at the end of 2007. A Sadr aide claimed to have 144 of the 275 parliamentarians supporting the bill. The bill is under legal review and has yet to reach the speaker of the parliament’s desk.

According to Alertnet, the bill is actually a “petition, which is nonbinding,” and must be presented to speaker. “Under Iraqi law, the speaker must present a resolution that’s called for by a majority of lawmakers, but there are significant loopholes and what will happen next is unclear.”

The Kurdish block backed the legislation but “only on the condition that the withdrawal timetable be linked to a schedule for training and equipping Iraq’s security forces.” The Sadrists didn’t include this requirement, prompting the Kurdish block to refer to the legislation as a deception.

The Sadrist block pulled off a masterful propaganda stunt. Expect the bill to be defeated when it comes to the full vote in parliament, as prior versions have been.

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Somewhere else in the news and blogs I read today, the was a commentary by a member of parliament that the were sandbagged by Sadr’s group because they proposed time lines based on benchmarks, not a fixed withdrawal date.

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I don’t know if that means we didn’t get run out.

Al Queda already has declared victory.

And the Parliament could just be getting a head start on sucking up to the radicals because they believe we’ve abandoned them.

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