Iraq’s Allawi: Prime Minister or Prime Whiner, Tedious Ba’athist Threats of Bloodshed….........
"Ayad Allwi declared today in an interview with Alarabiya that his Iraqiya bloc will not accept the results of the vote recount unless its conditions are met. He said that he will demand new elections under UN supervision if their demands are not met. But he reversed an early threay of his bloc to abandon the political process............."
Last Week:
“Allawi: The security has been deteriorating for almost eight to ten months… I think it is the failure of reconciliation and the sectarianism that still prevails. I also believe the readiness of security and military services have not been adequate. I think both the Army and police were built on and around sectarianism rather than professionalism.
Q: If Maliki’s State of Law alliance tries to form the next government instead of your slate, which has the largest number of seats in parliament, what will you do?
Allawi: If they insist and they want to occupy [the government], this will bring the country into really severe chaos… Denying the rights of the people, denying the constitution, a revolution and a coup against the constitution, this will be devastating. It will throw the country wide open to violence.
Q: Some Iraqis express fears that Prime Minister Nouri Maliki could become an authoritarian ruler. Are you concerned about this?
Allawi: Of course, we are worried. That’s why we believe in democracy ; that’s why we worked with democracy; and why I personally supervised the first democratic process in this country and I myself surrendered power peacefully and immediately as soon as the new government was formed………….”
That was yet another interview, with the LA Times. Mr. Allawi has campaigned in the West and in the capitals of Arab oligarchs and dictators more than he has done in Iraq. He has also rarely attended the last parliament. Mr. Allawi is getting tedious with his repeated warnings and not too veiled threats that unless he and his gaggle of current and former Ba’athists are given power, there will be blood on the streets. I got news for him: there was blood on the streets for forty years of Ba’athist rule, and for seven years afterward that. He ought to stop with the repetitive whining and threats and let the political deal-making take its course. After all, his rivals received about 70 more seats than his bloc, and that is not counting the Kurds. Just stop the whining and threats, something al-Maliki has not done, yet.
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