Iraq plans international, regional summits on its fate

[maddezmom]

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq will be holding two crucial conferences on its dire situation, one to include the United Nations and Arab League, and the other to include only its neighboring nations, the Iraq Foreign Ministry announced Thursday.

The announcement came on the heels of the Iraq Study Group's report, which was released Wednesday in the United States, and said "the situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating." Emphasizing the need for urgent action, it called for a "New Diplomatic Offensive" to launch before the end of this year.

Iraqi officials will also hold a domestic conference this month.

The more international of the two summits will be held in Baghdad within the next four months, according to the Foreign Ministry. Countries in the region will participate as well as other groups similar to the Arab League and the U.N.

The other conference will be held early next year and will only include representatives of Iran, Kuwait, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Turkey, the ministry said.

more;http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/07/iraq.main/index.html?section=cnn_latest

[Missy M]

1. Maybe this is what has been needed all along....

the Middle East getting together to try and solve the problems without the US meddling in it.

[Drum]

2. They should've done this a coupla years ago.

Honestly, such a bunch of clowns running this whole mess, on "our" end and the Iraqis'. I feel sorry for them that W's fantastical mission has overtaken them and forced them to assemble a government from rubble, but I feel that the Iraqi "leadership" has sat upon their hands far too long. To expect the same impotent entities to suddenly flourish as leaders there is about as stupid as expecting the GOP to do something right here....

It makes me furious! Real people's lives cannot be put on "pause" while these ass-clowns keep testing the wind. The fact that there is this foot-dragging amidst such suffering is yet more proof that the story-behind-the-story, that is the big $$$, has always been the priority in this fiasco.

Real leaders, on the other hand, stand up and do what's right, and put their people's welfare above all. It ain't happening here in the US, and it sure-as-hell ain't happening in Iraq.

Rant button off.

---sigh---