Our senate is improving, actually. Only three-fourths of the senators voted in favor of this frivolous, anti-Iraqi, anti-American resolution. Eight years ago all one hundred senators voted to shirk their constitutional duty to properly and publicly try an impeached president.
I report and link. You decide. - BJon
From a Voices of Iraq article, Iraqi parliament to debate reply to U.S. Congress resolution:
Iraqi parliament to debate reply to U.S. Congress resolution on Tuesday [/] Baghdad - Voices of Iraq [/] Tuesday , 02 /10 /2007 Time 12:14:47
Baghdad, Oct 1, (VOI) – The Iraqi parliament will debate in its ordinary session on Tuesday the reply to the U.S. Congress resolution on the division of Iraq into three Shiite, Kurdish and Sunni entities, parliamentary sources said on Monday. [/] "The debate about a reply to the U.S. Senate resolution on the division of Iraq will be of top priority in Tuesday's session," Dr. Hanin al-Qadou, a legislator from the Shiite Unified Iraqi Coalition (UIC), told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). [/] He expected the reply to be in "the form of a statement by the Iraqi parliament on this issue in view of the fact that enacting a legislation could take a long time."
He pointed out that the matter does not even require enacting a law because the content of the American resolution flagrantly interfered in Iraq's internal affairs, let alone its violation of the Iraqi constitution.
Qadou noted that the Iraqi constitution guarantees the country's "territorial integrity and national sovereignty," adding the Congress' resolution "can never change Iraq's settled national principles."
He said the U.S. resolution "only aimed to cause Iraq to slide into the pits of a civil war only God knows when it will end."
"It is the duty of all the national powers (in Iraq) to reject such an insolent resolution and to quickly announce their positions in the face of this trivializing with the sovereignty of Iraq," he said.
[...] Seven clerical and parliamentary powers that have the majority of the seats had called on Sunday for dedicating a session to debate a U.S. resolution that urged the division of Iraq. [/] The Senate resolution, which won the majority of 75 votes against 23, provides that Iraq would be divided into three Shiite, Kurdish and Sunni entities with a federal government in Baghdad undertaking the responsibilities of border security and management of oil proceeds. [/] The Senators who proposed the "non-binding" draft resolution considered that it was the "only solution" to grind to a halt acts of violence sweeping the war-scarred nation. [/] AE [/] [My ellipses and emphasis]
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