Rice to visit Iraq soon, SOFA process changed
Maliki’s interview with the Times shifted all the attentions away from this report published on the Green Zone newspaper Al-Sabaah. The “not very” interesting part is that Condoleezza Rice will visit Iraq in the coming days to put the “final touches” on SOFA agreement.
The interesting part is that SOFA’s Iraqi process is changed.
Maliki’s government turned the political procedures around, instead of passing the final document to the Presidential Council to approve the final document and then passing it to the parliament, a political decision issued today that the parliament should approves the final document before passing it to the Presidential Council.
What this change means?
By default, the approval of the Presidential Council means that the final document id valid and passing it to the parliament is a symbolic procedures.
Turning this process around means more delay since the parliament is divided on SOFA’s approval and that can takes months before the parl. Members can reach “something” and all that time SOFA is still on halt and invalid. This allows Maliki to buy more time.
Shrub and our continued presence… Namely, that Russia could play the ultimate spoiler on an UN continuation on the mandate… Coupled with the fact that Maliki will submit the SOFA to the Iraqi Parliament for approval before submitting it to thePresidential Boardas Lady Bird pointed out, casts the whole process in a new light… Maliki’s government turned the political procedures around, instead of passing the final document to the Presidential Council to approve the final document and then passing it to the
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Maliki is an idiot and should be removed from Government.