American Contractor

It has been reported in several media reports that Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki had three names for each of the three vacant cabinet posts, Interior, Defense, and National Security. PM Al-Maliki had announced last weekend the exact names he wanted for the posts and was unable to confirm those names.

If the deadlock didn’t occur the government would be on their way in getting Iraq back on track and getting on with business and managing the countries affairs. Let’s go back a few days to what happened in Basrah.

Last Wednesday, PM Al-Maliki went down to Basrah to put a stop to the militia, political parties and criminals that are controlling the oil reserves in Basrah. Things did not get any better in Basrah. The largest party in the Iraqi parliament is the United Iraqi Alliance, the largest Shiite group that dwells and lives in the southern region of Iraq.

The UIA along with Militia and criminals control the oil reserves and don’t want to give it up. Iran has purposely crippled Iraq due to funding the militia and other groups. I am wondering what the response is going to be to get the oil reserves back under the central government control. Since the Militia’s and the criminals answer to the Iraqi PM was a suicide bomber. Now the PM has declared martial law for 30 days.

There is a major problem when a PM of a country can not get his cabinet appointed of people who he thinks that can fill those positions. I think we are heading into another serious of delays in the new Iraqi government. I don’t see any appointments anytime soon. PM Maliki is handcuffed and can’t operate for the good of the Iraqi people no matter what party affiliation or religious aspect they fall under.

I think that PM Maliki is doing his best under the difficult circumstances it’s his party that is giving him the problems and setting the country back.

The good thing about this is that no matter what the Iraq government does people are still building things and still living their lives and attempting to provide for their families. Construction Projects are still being executed. The banking infrastructure and most definitely the Iraq Stock Exchange projects such as electronic trading are being worked on as the Iraq government continues with there delays after delays.

There is a good side to all of this besides the violence going on in Iraq. I can go on and on but I think you get the picture.