Iraq delays reconciliation conference

[leftchick]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061015/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_political_turmoil

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iraqi government on Sunday postponed indefinitely a much-anticipated national reconciliation conference aimed at shoring up the country's political system, citing "emergency reasons."

The statement issued by the Cabinet reflected the deteriorating security situation in the country, in which hundreds are dying each week in sectarian- and insurgent-inspired violence.

Failure to bring the deeply divided Iraqi politicians together as planned also appeared likely to exacerbate the crumbling effort of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to build a broader political consensus.

The Ministry of State for National Dialogue issued the one-paragraph announcement on the first anniversary of a national referendum which approved the country's first post- Saddam Hussein constitution.

[babylonsister]

1. Nice to see dimson's plans for a united Iraq are going so

well. :sarcasm:

[Drum]

2. FUBAR n/t

[Amonester]

3. What? It seems "No More 'Fake' Conferences" is "better" than...

"Stay the course" now?

Anything to do with a "dark" NIE document being spinned into "everything looks rosy" by ** and his minions??

[rodeodance]

4. another milestone down the tube

[bemildred]

5. How about a pre-reconciliation-conference conference?

Maybe we can iron things out that way.

[daleo]

6. Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!

Or in this case, the Reconciliation Conference.

[Califooyah Operative]

7. eh, what's the hurry?

Just a civil war going on with American troops caught in the middle.