Posted by
Joe Voter on Monday, July 30, 2007 12:18:19 PM
Iraq's Parliament
has adjourned for its summer recess today. The Parliamentary speaker Mahmoud Mashhadani said in a statement that he had dismissed lawmakers until September 4, 2007. Mahmoud stated, "It is our constitutional right to take it (a break)."
A preliminary White House assessment earlier this month faulted Iraqi leaders for failing to enact laws aimed at curbing violence, including measures to distribute oil revenue, hold provincial elections and loosen restrictions on members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party returning to public life.
The recess means parliament will resume just before U.S. military commander General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker are due to report back to Congress on the success of this year's "surge" in U.S. troops to Iraq.
Maybe the U.S. troops in Iraq should go on summer recess.
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