Allawi has a peace plan (sorry if that has been posted already)

[Gloria]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2129987.ece

FROM ALL CORNERS, SUPPORT GROWS FOR IRAQ PEACE PLAN

Yesterday in 'The Independent', the former Iraqi defence minister Ali Allawi presented a blueprint for peace in Iraq. His proposals have met with overwhelming approval

By Ben Russell, Kim Sengupta and Rupert Cornwell in Washington
Published: 06 January 2007

A blueprint for peace in Iraq has won praise from across the political establishment as senior figures from all parties urged a new strategy to bring states across the Middle East into the struggle to end the conflict.

Senior Labour figures joined opposition MPs in welcoming the plan, set out by Iraq's former defence minister Ali Allawi, for Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey to be given a role in helping to end the increasingly bitter sectarian divisions in Iraq that have helped push the country towards civil war. Senior military figures and foreign affairs analysts also backed the intervention of Mr Allawi, a senior adviser to the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, whose blueprint was revealed in yesterday's Independent.

It comes as Tony Blair and George Bush consider a new strategy for Iraq to quell the worsening violence and instability.

Mr Allawi proposed decentralisation in Iraq, with the central government acting as "adjudicators" between regions. He said a series of regional conferences should be called to start the process of establishing international bodies with Iraq's neighbours to encourage security co-operation and act as a guarantor of civil rights.

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[Kagemusha]

1. When I read the plan, it sounded like...

Allawi wants Iraq handed to him on a silver platted. Hell, he wants a regional alliance handed to him on a silver platter. He doesn't mention Israel once, makes a lot of noise about internationalizing the problem, and expects the Iraqi Parliament to vote its sovereignty on all economic and national security issues to two power councils... so why would you need (or want) the Iraqi Parliament anymore?

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Rock, Paper, Scissors

It's at least as practical as anything I've heard suggested lately.

We've got millions of really, really angry people. With automatic weapons. And millions of pounds of liberated plastic explosives. And duct tape and drills.

What a fucking catastrophe.

[Disturbed]

3. The Busholin Regime wanted Allawi as PM.

A couple of years ago Allawi went to an Iraqi Police station and murdered six Detainees by shooting them all in the head before they got a trial. That's the kind of PM that is wanted for Iraq?