First, there are rumors cir­cu­lated today say, that Maliki ordered to stop the Jus­tice and Account­abil­ity deci­sion before Biden’s visit, but the Com­mit­tee denied these reports. Alsumariya assured of the exis­tence of such order (I bet the prob­lem is how to bring it to the public).

Among the the names we can read the name of the cur­rent Defense Min­is­ter Abdul Kader Al-Ubaidi, he is num­ber 282 (image 1). The Head of the Sufi sect Nihru Moham­mad Abdul Al-Karim, num­ber 489 (image 2) .… remark­able is that most of the excluded are from Anbar Province, but there are Shi­ite can­di­dates excluded also.

It is also impor­tant to see the two cri­te­ria used to exclude the can­di­dates. 1) Ba’athists who swore the Baath Party’s oath (used to be a rou­tine rit­ual for all Baath Party mem­bers) and named in the doc­u­ments pos­sessed by the Com­mit­tee. 2) Can­di­dates fall under Arti­cle 7 of the constitution:

Unti­tled with ter­ror­ism crime, are per­sons who are active and par­tic­i­pate in ter­ror­ists acts, fund­ing ter­ror­ism .…etc

There is one point here:

- Arti­cle 7 uses the phrase “The Baath of Sad­dam Husein”. Since Baath Party existed before Sad­dam Husein, Mut­laq resigned from the party in 1977 and even Sad­dam him­self exe­cuted and impris­oned Baathists, then this point is arguable.

Side note:

Iron­i­cally, Al-Mutlaq resigned from the Baath Party defend­ing the Dawa Party in its 1977 upris­ing, at that time called the “Khan Al-Nus” events.

Notice also that the U.S. vice pres­i­dent Biden asked to “post­pone” the deci­sion and not to “can­cel” the deci­sion — because he knows and the Iraqi knows that that there is a very nar­row mar­gin to maneu­ver against the Iraqi con­sti­tu­tion (and the U.S> don’t want to be seen as forc­ing the Iraqi insti­tu­tions to vio­late the constitution).

Hashimi is lying, if the deci­sion is ques­tion­able then this is for the Fed­eral Court, “J and A” did noth­ing against the con­sti­tu­tion, but the ques­tion raised by the Iraqi media is: Why did the U.S. allowed the exis­tence of this law?

The the­ory cir­cu­lates among Iraqis about the U.S. posi­tion, falls under con­tain­ing the new emerged polit­i­cal power in Iraq. The excluded arel given the oppor­tu­nity to par­tic­i­pate in the elec­tion, after aban­don­ing their pre­vi­ous ide­ol­ogy. In other words; Tam­ing the new politicians.