2 month vacation by Iraqi parliament? Duh, why not?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

Has anyone here ever been in the middle east?
in the summer?
EVERYONE tries to get away in midsummer - if only out of self-preservation. The heat is oppressive, the air is sandy, and even dangerous. The idea of having official government functions in midsummer is simply not done.

Texas, and at least 20 other state legislatures work part time. They rarely work during the summer. (absent an emergency). Italy, England, France, Germany, Russia, and others, all take a break during the summer.

But, we fly out Darth Cheney to chide, yell at, and complain about the fact that Iraqis want a break.

There is another problem. Iraqi legislators have been targetted by their own people, day in, day out. Who can blame them for wanting to escape, and see their families, possibly for the last time.