Iraqis Chafe at U.S. Block on Choice of President
Deadlock set in Sunday after a prime minister and key cabinet posts were broadly agreed to, prompting U.S. officials to ask the Iraqi Governing Council to put off until Tuesday further talks on filling the largely ceremonial post of head of state.
The U.S.-appointed Council favors its present leader, Ghazi Yawar, a prominent tribal leader with support from various ethnic and religious groups. Council members said U.S. governor Paul Bremer and U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi were pressuring them to back Adnan Pachachi, an 81-year-old former foreign minister.
“There’s quite a lot of interference. They should let the Iraqis decide for themselves. This is an Iraqi affair,” Mahmoud Othman, a Kurd on the 22-member Council, told Reuters.
If the position is largely ceremonial, why start a fight with the Governing Council? It makes little sense.
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By Steven Taylor
In an attempt to note the significance of Memorial Day, here is a round-up of those on my blogroll remembering today:
Rosemary Esmay, QOAE: Memorial Day.
Andrew Cline of Rhetorica: Thank you…
Jeff Soyer at Alphecca: Alphecca: Memorial Day (via Dean Esmay).
Moe Freedman has a cartoon to help us remember why we fight at Occam’s Toothbrush.
Sgt Hook seeks to remember all who have died in the Global War on Terror (via Jen).
Jeff Quiton: Memorial Day 2024.
A special thanks to those veterans in my family: Walter A. Kinney, Jr. who served in the Pacific theater in WWII and his brother Burch Kinney who also fought in WWII, my late Great-Uncle L. M. Golden who served in the Navy during WWII, my father Roy L. Taylor, who served in the Air Force in the mid-to-late 1960s and his brother Clifford D. Taylor, who was stationed in Viet Nam during the war.
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By Steven Taylor
And here they are.
UPDATE: It seems great minds thinks alike and all that jazz.
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By Steven Taylor
Don’t forget, PoliBlog will be hosting this week’s Wizbang: Bonfire Of The Vanities–send submissions to: bonfire at wizbangblog.com..
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By Steven Taylor
Saudi Commandos Free Hostages in Copter Raid
Saudi commandos jumped from helicopters to storm a housing complex Sunday and free dozens of foreign hostages from militants who had killed at least 17 people in an assault on the vital Saudi oil industry.
Security sources said several hostages were killed during the rescue operation at the upmarket Oasis compound to end a 25-hour drama in the oil city of Khobar in eastern Saudi Arabia. The final death toll was not immediately clear.
An Internet statement purporting to come from Osama bin Laden (news – web sites)’s al Qaeda network said it carried out the unprecedented hostage-taking, which raised the stakes in a battle the world’s biggest crude exporter has waged against the group for a year.
A later statement signed by the “al Qaeda network in the Arabian Peninsula” vowed to rid the peninsula of “infidels.”
In a dramatic end to the standoff, television pictures showed helicopters dropping commandos onto the roof of the complex. After freeing about 50 hostages, Saudi forces arrested several gunmen, including their leader.
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By Steven Taylor
From today’s Mobile Register:
Strict interpretation, activism can clash
Sunday, May 30, 2024
By STEVEN L. TAYLOR
Special to the Register
One of the philosophical mainstays of conservatism is that the job of the courts is to read and apply the law as written by legislatures. This principle is called “judicial restraint.”
Conservatives often gripe that liberal judges tend to go beyond the law as written and insert their own views into their rulings. This idea is often referred to as “judicial activism” or “legislating from the bench.”
The whole thing is here.
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By Steven Taylor
From today’s Birmingham News:
Tuesday’s primary more than a yawn
Sunday, May 30, 2024
STEVEN L. TAYLOR
One’s initial response to the Tuesday primaries in Alabama is likely a deep, sustained yawn. In terms of the races in the Republican and Democratic parties to choose their candidates for the presidency, that decision has been made for months (indeed, there are days when it seem like years). All we have to do in regard to those races is choose the delegates to attend the parties’ conventions in Boston and New York this summer. This is hardly the kind of stuff that gets citizens running to the polls ready to exercise their piece of sovereign power.
The whole thing is
here.
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