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Up to 99%! Does anyone have Shabibi's email address? I want to make sure he sees this.

Good article! Thanks for posting it!

Thank you, Tim. And from my family to yours, a very Merry Christmas, and a prosperous New Year!

I'm still hearing some positive progress here though! GO RV!!

Is Haidar Al-Bakri the General Supervisor?

Can somebody tell me what the h#11 that said?

Now, if they'd just do something regarding it!!! I've got a suggestion............................. RV!

No, we want the USD to be less than the IQD! That means that when we trade in our 25,000 IQD bills, we get MORE USD!!!!!

Maybe the problem with delays would be solved if they got a "wise female" in there to get things moving?? :rolleyes Listen to the Kurds already!!! Seat the women, and all of this procrastination would be over!!!!

The only thing left to say is Amen.

Wow! Thank you for the breakdown on what will be happening in the meeting tomorrow. It makes waiting easier.

I interpreted Jim's question being more about wondering if Shabibi has made any public statements. That's what I'd like to know too.

Thank you, pops. I really appreciate this post. It is so important to know the players in order to understand what is going on in the game.

If the parlimentary vote on Maliki's cabinet is set for 2pm tomorrow, that would be 6am in New York. Wouldn't it be great to wake up to the news that the GOI had been voted on and accepted? Then we could lurk all day and post speculation on the TIME of the RV instead of the date???

I'm getting dizzy!!

I see logic in cwtrimmers post. Crap!

Well, if being Smart sucks, then being Wise blows!!

Yelling SHOTGUN in Iraq may be equivalent to yelling FIRE in a crowded theater!

I think its the naming of the Security Minister that is holding this show up.

It's like the argument between kids about who gets to sit in the front seat. Sheesh!!

People keep saying that "they" predicted a period of chaos and disinformation right before the RV. I'd like to know who said this? Who is "they"? Why would this be true?

Maliki refuses Falah al-Naqib's candidacy for Defense ministry Monday, December 20th 2010 1:49 PM Baghdad, Dec. 20 (AKnews) - A member of the State of Law Coalition (SLC) said on Monday that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has refused the al-Iraqiya List member Falah al-Naqib’s candidacy for the post of Defense Minister in the next government. Ali al-Adeeb told AKnews that al-Maliki’s refusal was not against al-Naqib personally but based on the constitutional decree that the security ministers must be named by the Iraqi PM. "Al-Maliki is responsible for selecting the security ministers in the government, and they should be politically independent," he said. The al-Iraqiya List nominated Falah al-Naqib and Iskandar Wattout for the post of Defence Minister. Article 70, paragraph 4 of the Iraqi Constitution states that the Prime Minister must present the names of his cabinet members and its ministerial platform to parliament. The cabinet is then entrusted when the majority of members vote for the ministers individually and for the PM’s ministerial program. The President Jalal Talabani officially assigned on November 25 Nouri al-Maliki to form a government within the constitutionally decreed period of thirty days and the latter declared his intention to form his government before the constitutional deadline which expires on December 24. Reported by Khuloud al-Zayyadi Rn/Ka/Aknews http://www.aknews.com/en/aknews/4/203960/

Back in the day, every student had to take a typing class (on manual typewriters, not electric) as a prerequisite for graduation. I was so busy with other academic courses that I didn't get to this until senior year. Interesting being a senior in a class full of freshman! However, I can't text worth a darned!!! Thumbs are for the space bar!

Sounds like even though Maliki will be at the 4pm meeting, it won't be until 11am tomorrow that they plan on announcing the GOI.