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"Jaafari is, however, unacceptable to the United States because of his close ties to Iran and his socialist tendencies (he recently expressed admiration for Noam Chomsky and wondered if Noam would come visit Baghdad)."
This is from Informed Comment, Juan Cole's site. Jaafari is supposed to be the prime minister, because the Shiites won the election, but guess what? Big Brother doesn't like him.
You have to scroll down to his article headlined this way: The Kurdistan Alliance and the Sunni fundamentalist Iraqi Accord Front.
Cole is talking about the fact that the Iraqi government is having a hard time finding members for its "unity" cabinet. Gee, I wonder why?????
SIRATYST (Stuff I Read and Thought You Should Too) -- “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.” (Calgacus, as quoted by Tacitus, Agricola 30-31)"
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