useless debate

Two days ago the Iraqi parliament read some laws that specialized to compensate the victims of the former regime. I noticed strange thing that parliament separated these laws into different laws one for each incident. So parliamentarians tried to lose time in useless dabates.

Really it was funny session that it presented kind of bluffing when Kurd member said, “if you will compensate the victims of Sha’aban uprising, you should compensate victims of March uprising too?” he said.

The Kurd deputy demanded the parliament issue two laws for same event. It is same uprising, in the same date but gave the months of the Christian and Muslim calendar.

I wondered why they don’t put one law for compensation and use it as a standard law and use it to compensate the victims regardless the dates, names, or sects.

Why they lose the time by dividing the events according to the places, sects, and dates although it is events happened in Iraq and its victims are Iraqis. ….. That is the important here Iraq and Iraqis, it doesn’t matter if these incident happened in summer, spring, winter, or in autumn.

I’m waiting for the day that parliament stops losing time and efforts to issue the important laws that we need today in order to pass across this difficult time.

Comments

[Age]

yeah but if the iraqi politicians play their cards right they can get the expertise of the multinationals, because of the size of the reserves, and still get very favorable prices from their oil something like what canada and finland have accomplished. i dont think the alaskan model is perfect here but if they split revenues in someway between the national govt, the regions and then send part of the revenues straight to the iraqi people for a short time they could have a benefit from thier oil. oil can be a curse but it can also be a savior, perhaps even in iraq.

[Robert Whitlock]

I think that they are stalling because they do not want to address the oil legislation.

There is a lot of pressure from the USA and Britain, et al. to pass a law that will enable Western Oil Corporations to have lucrative contracts with the Iraqi Government.

It is important that the people, land and nation of Iraq aren't exploited to suit the needs of powerful oil companies.