Current crisis: The U.S., the coalitions and the positions

The title of the Al-Sharq Al-Awsat : Ban the Baathists: sup­ported by the Shi­ite major­ity .. rejected by the Sunni Arabs .. reser­va­tion by the Kurds, says more about the U.S. triple-standards pol­icy in Iraq: 1) Neu­tral­ity with the Kurds push­ing them to strengthen their role in the equa­tion, 2) Sup­port­ing the Shi­ite juridi­cal pro­ce­dures. 3) Makes the Sun­nis feel that Wash­ing­ton does not trust the “J and A” Commission.

The Shi­ites

The Amer­i­cans insist on re-arranging Iraq’s inter­nal house before the with­draw of U.S. mil­i­tary forces in August at the end of next year, most likely that Wash­ing­ton and sev­eral Iraqi polit­i­cal blocs want take Maliki out of the polit­i­cal process through the bal­lot boxes.

With Biden’s pres­ence in Iraq, Maliki saw the cur­rent as his last chance to cut a deal with the Amer­i­cans, espe­cially that Obama’s Admin­is­tra­tion after invit­ing Adil Abdul Mehdi, Hashimi and Barzani show signs that they are not inter­ested in Maliki any more.

A day before Biden’s visit, Pro-Maliki Al-Sumaria TV leaked a doc­u­ment signed by the Head of the Min­is­ters Coun­cil Ali Al-A’alaq, showed that the Coun­cil doesn’t rec­og­nize the Jus­tice and Account­abil­ity decision.

The same Al-A’alaq who signed the doc­u­ment men­tioned above, later said on Fayha TV:

The Gov. and the Par­lia­ment posi­tions from “J and A” is very clear, it is a legit­i­mate and con­sti­tu­tional body, no one has the right to can­cel its decisions.

The Sun­nis

The Islamic Party is part of the plot, and I already said the that the rea­son is to take a revenge from its for­mer leader Al-Hashimi, and if the posi­tion of the Islamic Party leader telling Joe Biden his refusal to post­pone the “J and A” deci­sion until after the elec­tion doesn’t says enough, then his meet­ing with “Mad­hat Al-Mahmmoud” the Head of Supreme Fed­eral Court do.

P.S.

Mad­hat Al-Mahmmoud, used to be a good friend of Sad­dam Hus­sein, and Saddam’s legal adviser for three years. In 2002 he wrote an arti­cle called “The great­est leader for the great­est peo­ple” ded­i­cated to Sad­dam Hus­sein in the mil­i­tary ran news­pa­per Al-Qadisiya. About two years ago Al-Mahmmoud him­self is threat­ened with the de-Baathification

The Kurds

This is the weird­est posi­tion, Kur­dish offi­cials in Kur­dis­tan region sup­port Mut­laq and the excluded can­di­dates, the Kur­dish MP rep­re­sen­ta­tives in Bagh­dad sup­port “J and A” decision.

Both Tal­a­bani and Barzani expressed their rejec­tion to Mutlaq’s and other the can­di­dates exclu­sion, while Kur­dish deputy-House speaker has said that “J and A” deci­sion is con­sti­tu­tional and based on evi­dence and facts.

The Sec­u­lar Parties

Rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Arab League Bin Hilli after his medi­a­tion visit described his meet­ing with Allawi as “dis­ap­point­ing” say­ing: Allawi wasn’t very enthu­si­ast to find a solu­tion to the crisis.