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Iraq’s incumbent Nouri al-Maliki has been assigned Prime Minister, making this his second term. He was given the top job by newly re-elected President Jalal Talabani, a Kurdish leader. It took more than eight months of national elections to reach this point, amid ongoing political tensions. During proceedings, opposition leader and former Prime Minister, Ayad Allawi walked out of parliament, in protest that four MPs were not reinstated because of alleged ties to Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party. It points to the task Prime Minister al-Maliki has ahead of him of easing the Sunni community’s sense of alienation, Time Magazine says. As far as the U.S. is concerned, Allawi was the favorite choice for the Prime Ministerial role, says Time. But the magazine says al-Maliki’s second term indicates how those who can handle the complexities of competing ethnic, sectarian, political and regional interests will win Iraq’s political game. Read more: http://www.thirdage.com/news/nouri-al-maliki-iraq-decides-its-prime-minister_11-13-2010#ixzz15DtYHQ4b

Adam Iraq had their government forming yesterday as you know. Lots to talk about and some bone heads on here are telling others a bunch of BS. They set up the call for people to hear what the real truth about everything. So you should be glad that they step up and helped out others to clear the air. NO ONE WAS SELLING ANYTHING ON HERE AT ALL ADAM. I seat in on your calls all the time but they really talked about what is going on in the past few months and being up to date. I stand behind those guys for what they did. THANKS GUYS!!!!!

Adam why did you delete my post for saying don't ban Steve and the others? It's freedom of speech right? You might ban me but it won't be the first. Stay true to the cause that you set in place with DV. To let others be inform and nothing more. No saying Dinars or even books, just talking about the truth. Thanks..

Hey Adam don't ban these guys because they are helping out the new people. To many other people on here saying stuff that aren't true and it's great that you have friends on here that will set the facts and call out the BONE HEADS on DV. Thanks again

Hey Adam don't ban these guys because they are helping out the new people. To many other people on here saying stuff that aren't true and it's great that you have friends on here that will set the facts and call out the BONE HEADS on DV. Thanks again

Well Stave and crew thanks for having the call for us. You guys had great info to share and it was nice to see someone step up and talk about what is going on over there. Thanks Again.. A+

Will they have a in country RV first?

Steve can I ask a question about RV? I'm still on the call with you.. Thanks..

Hey if you guys are looking for a CPA, my father is a great CPA for over 40 years. He's in Clearwater so I don't know if that will help anyone out. The one thing I know is he had clients in the past that the IRS were coming after and got them all off. No fines.. So the way I see it, he knows his stuff.

Yes you can. He's also looking into more ways to save us more money.

LOL my dad is a great CPA and I got him into this also. So now he has IQD's lol I'm looking great over here in Clearwater...

I'm loving it!! This is a great day for Iraq and us.. GO RV!!!!!

I agree that the US Treasury take charge of the money system, the Fed is out to make all the money they can. They are not for the people but them self's! It's time to take back all of America!!

Thanks for the link it was nice to hear that the government is finally forming on live TV. thanks again Let's just hope they RV in a few weeks. God Bless all.

Kuwaiti Dinar to US Dollar (/KWDUS) /KWDUS quote (delayed at least 60 minutes) 3.56570down -0.00064 -0.02%

I REPORTED THIS ALREADY..

You guys this is the best news I've seen in years. We are soooo close to an RV, can you smell it. I'm like ready to get off this ride and start a new life. I lost my wife and my 2 kids. 3 months ago I lost my house because my ex didn't want to sell it or anything. This will help me get back on my feet. I put all my money that I had into it, as much money I could get my hands on. Lets pray that this will RV within 2 weeks. Great for Black Friday shopping that's for sure. GOOOOOOOOOOOOO RV!!!!

Iraqi politicians have reached agreement on a power-sharing deal, exactly eight months after the country went to the polls. The deal will see Nouri al-Maliki stay on as prime minister, but will allow MPs from Iyad Allawi's Iraqiya party choose the speaker. A government spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, says some details still need to be ironed out but that parliament will meet to choose a speaker on Thursday. He says Mr Makaki and Mr Allawi will meet in the northern city of Arbil later today for a formal ceremony to announce the agreement. "An agreement was reached yesterday among the political parties in which the prime minister will stay on, and the Iraqiya party will choose its candidate for parliament speaker," Mr Dabbagh said. Iraq's second general election since the 2003 US-led invasion ended in deadlock after none of the main parties won enough of the 325 seats in parliament to form a majority government. Parliament has since remained in hiatus, except for a 20-minute oath-taking ceremony and another brief meeting at which acting speaker Fuad Massum declared an indefinite "open" session. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/11/08/3059552.htm Great news for us and it's coming from ABC... RV soon baby!!!!

Now this is what I like to see, this is great stuff. I just hope they form a gov very soon. I can see that an RV should be insight within 30 days people. Great for the holidays. Go RV..

I reported this news the other day... Old news... I don't think it will happen because he's paid he's way in the middle east. That guy needs to burn in hell.

no one really knows what it will be.

Written by Warren Mass Tuesday, 26 October 2010 16:00 0 Voice of America and other news sources reported on October 25 that Tariq Aziz, Iraq’s former foreign minister and deputy prime minister, has been sentenced to death by hanging by Iraq's top criminal court. Aziz, a Chaldean Catholic, was the only Christian in Saddam Hussein’s government, which was dominated by Sunni Muslims. The present government of Iraq, headed by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (who lived in exile in Iran from 1982 until 1990), is dominated by Shiite Muslims. Aziz’s conviction was largely based on charges that he helped to kill, imprison, or exile leaders of al-Maliki’s Islamic Dawa party. A Wikipedia article notes of al-Maliki’s association with the Dawa Party: In 1979 al-Maliki fled Iraq after hearing the government of Saddam Hussein planned to execute him. He was sentenced to death in absentia in 1980. According to a brief biography on the Islamic Dawa Party's website, he left Iraq via Jordan in October 1979 and soon moved to Syria, adopting the pseudonym "Jawad." He left Syria for Iran in 1982, where he lived until 1990, mostly in Tehran, before returning to Damascus where he remained until the 2003 US invasion toppled Hussein.[4] In Syria he worked as a political officer for Dawa, developing close ties with Hezbollah [a Shi'a Islamist political and paramilitary organization based in Lebanon that has called for the elimination of the State of Israel] and particularly with Iran, supporting that country's effort to topple Saddam Hussein's regime. From Syria, he also directed the efforts of Dawa guerillas to topple Hussein throughout the 1990s. AP reported that Aziz’s Jordan-based lawyer, Badee Izzat Aref, accused the Iraqi government of orchestrating the verdict to divert attention from recent revelations about prisoner abuse by Iraqi security forces contained in U.S. military documents released last week by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks. "We are discussing this issue and what next step we should take," Aref told The Associated Press in Amman, the Jordanian capital. "This sentence is not fair and it is politically motivated." Aziz is already serving a 15-year prison sentence for the execution of 42 merchants found guilty of profiteering and black-market currency trading in 1992, and he was sentenced to another seven years for the forced displacement of Kurds in northern Iraq. Judge Mahmoud Saleh al-Hassan rendered the final verdict punishment — death by hanging — for participating in deliberate killings, but provided no details. Aziz's son, Ziad, told the AP that the death sentence was "unfair" and "illogical." He said his father was the victim, not the criminal, since Dawa Party members tried to assassinate him in 1980. "This is an illogical and an unfair sentence that is serving political goals of the Iraqi government," Ziad said in an interview on October 26. "Tariq Aziz himself was the victim of the religious parties that tried to kill him in 1980, but now he is turned into a criminal." A report in the Christian Science Monitor noted: International experts have criticized the proceedings, saying former regime officials should be tried in an international court, free of potential political influence. Aziz is elderly and in ill health. His family and lawyer have argued that he should be released for humanitarian reasons. Aziz’s lawyer, Badee Aref, told Reuters news service that the decision to impose the death penalty on his client was politically motivated, stating: It is a political verdict and not legal. He (Aziz) expected that, especially when the U.S. administration handed him over to the Iraqi government. The BBC reported that its Baghdad correspondent, Jim Muir, observed that there is a “visceral hatred felt by the current holders of power in Iraq towards Saddam Hussein's regime.” However, noted Muir, “many in Iraq do not see Aziz, who is a Christian, as one of Saddam's evil insiders and a lobby could spring up to prevent him being sent to the gallows.” During the time he served as Saddam Hussein’s chief international spokesman, Aziz was known for his efforts to negotiate an alternative settlement to the U.S.-led war against Iraq. He met with Secretary of State James A. Baker in Geneva in January 1991, but that meeting failed to prevent the 1991 Gulf War. Aziz also met with the late Pope John Paul II at the Vatican on February 14, 2003, just weeks before the March U.S.-led invasion in an attempt to head off that conflict, as well. An article in Wikipedia about that meeting quoted from a Vatican statement that Aziz had communicated "the wish of the Iraqi government to co-operate with the international community, notably on disarmament." The decision made by U.S. forces to turn Aziz over to a government dominated by his former political enemies, who could hardly be viewed as impartial, is replete with ironies. Though Saddam Hussein was unquestionably a brutal tyrant, the Christian community in Iraq enjoyed religious freedom during his rule. One can hardly imagine a Chaldean Catholic such as Aziz (or any other Christian) rising to a similar place in the present Shiite-dominate government that has close ties to Iran. Once Saddam was removed, again by U.S.-led forces, life in Iraq became unbearable for Christians, a large number of whom have fled the country. Though the invasion of Iraq did not uncover the reputed weapons of mass destruction that served as justification for the operation, the regime change it brought about had a major impact on the lives of Iraq’s Christians. A June 2, 2010 article in USA Today headlined “For Christians in Iraq, the threats persist,” observed: Before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 there were about 1.4 million Christians in Iraq, a Muslim-dominated nation of nearly 30 million. Since then, about 50% of Iraq's Christians have fled the country, taking refuge in neighboring Jordan, Syria, Europe and the USA, according to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The article continued: The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, a government panel tasked with monitoring religious freedoms around the world for the State Department, recently recommended that Secretary of State Hillarious Rodham Clinton designate Iraq as a "country of particular concern" because of the violence against Christians and other religious minorities. Tariq Aziz’s complicity in the regime of Saddam Hussein undoubtedly disqualifies him from receiving a “humanitarian of the year” award. However, the disinterested manner in which the United States handed him over to the al-Maliki government — which has cozied up to the militant Islamic leaders of Iran while failing to protect Iraq’s Christians — only magnifies the disregard our government has had for Middle Eastern Christians in general.

OMG That was so funny. You made me laugh. Good one keep up the good work.

Al Jazeera English to Air Specials Based on Wikileaks By Kristin Brzoznowski Published: October 25, 2010 DOHA: Al Jazeera English is the first international broadcaster to air analytical coverage and programs that are based on the leaked documents from Wikileaks about the Iraq War. Produced for Al Jazeera English by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the programs are based on files from Wikileaks, who gained access to more than 400,000 documents regarding the war in Iraq, making it the largest document leak in U.S. history. Among the topics covered in the programs are the U.S. Army's cover up of Iraqi state sanctioned torture, the U.S.'s repeat denial of death counts kept, the killing of civilians at U.S.-manned checkpoints and new information on Blackwater civilian killings. Topics also touch on U.S. Army reports about Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki and allegations of his association with death squads and Iran's secret involvement in financing Shia militias.

Egyptian Columnist: Execute Iraqi PM Al-Maliki For War Crimes In an article in the Egyptian government daily Al-Gomhouriyya, Gamal Abd Al-Rahim called for prosecuting Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki for war crimes, and for a death sentence after it was proved that he was involved in the murder of thousands of Iraqi Sunnis was proven, as published by WikiLeaks. Al-Rahim added that Al-Maliki's crimes were graver than those of Saddam Hussein. Source: Al-Gomhouriyya, Egypt, October 26, 2010 I hope he is out..