Iraq Shiite leader wants small parties out

[sabra]

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Iraq Shiite leader wants small parties out

The Associated Press

AMARAH, Iraq (AP) — The head of Iraq's largest parliamentary bloc called Tuesday for smaller Shiite parties to keep from diluting the vote for his group by withdrawing, alleging that some were fronts for Saddam Hussein's former Baath Party.

United Iraqi Alliance head Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, whose group holds 140 seats in the 275-member parliament, appeared to be accusing former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, a secular Shiite and former Baathist.

Fellow Shiites have charged that Allawi is bringing former Baathists back into the government, police and army. Allawi has said former Baathists who have not committed crimes should be integrated into society.

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Al-Hakim told thousands of people at a sports stadium in Amarah, 180 miles southeast of Baghdad, Tuesday that some Shiite slates already have withdrawn to clear the way for the United Iraqi Alliance.

[IndianaGreen]

1. Goose stepping towards theocratic tyranny!

Is this why so many have died for? Over 2,100 GIs died to establish an Iranian-style dictatorship in Iraq.

[kenny blankenship]

2. Gee I guess what they really need to do is

to make only the top Shiite party eligible to hold cabinet posts (or maybe seats in parliament) under the rubric of representing the other shiite parties without diluting their power. That way they get One Party State efficiency with the comforting illusion of choice--isn't that, after all, the sincerest flattery they could offer to us, their liberators and educators?

[acmavm]

3. Real democratic and free country you got going their blivet. Proud of

yourself? I'm sure you are, you're too stupid and corrupt to know what you've really done.