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Baghdadis align with Barzani's Maliki
statements, reject Kurdistan separation
23.3.2012
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March
23, 2012
BAGHDAD, —
Residents of Baghdad expressed their support of the
President of Iraq's Kurdistan region Massoud
Barzani's description of the federal government as a
"failure," as it did not realizes Iraqis' ambitious,
however criticizing his statements on
declaring the independence of the
Kurdistan region.
"Barzani underlined a truth everyone knows; the
consecutive Iraqi governments did not benefit from
the Kurdistan region's experience in reconstruction
and the development of the infrastructure, but his
statements regarding the separation of Kurdistan was
not appropriate as he knows that this is not
possible as long as two strong countries like Turkey
and Iran exist," Abdulhussein Radhi, 51, from Sadr
City, eastern Baghdad, said.
"The Federal government has not implemented its
promises made regarding houses, services electricity
since 2003," he told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
"All Iraqi governments have continued lying to
Iraqis," Lamyaa Sabr from al-Karada neighborhood in
central Baghdad said.
"They live in the fortified Green Zone far from the
rest of the citizens," she noted.
"Corruption is still spread throughout the country
and Al-Mustansiriya bridge is a model of the
government's mismanagement and corruption; the
bridge opened three months ago, but now has been
closed as a result of the inefficient construction,"
Sabr added.
"The president of Kurdistan was right when he
criticized the government, mainly its attempt to
grab power and to marginalize partnership," Ahmad
Amin, 28, from Suliekh neighborhood in northeastern
Baghdad, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
"All Iraqis believed that with the withdrawal of US
forces things will be fine, but they have become
more complicated and Iraqis are the only losers, but
I disagree with Barzani on the separation issue,www.ekurd.net
as Kurds are part of a multi-ethnic Iraqi," he
noted.
For his part, Abdullah Omar, 52, from al-Aadhmiya,
agreed with Barzani on describing the government as
failure and with accusing al-Maliki of being the man
who attempt to power grab.
Abdullah Omar demanded the president of Kurds to
move and take actions and not to stop at just
accusing and criticizing them.
Massoud Barzani on Tuesday threatened to pull
support from the nation’s already wobbly coalition
government, criticizing the central government for a
power grab he denounced as ideological terrorism.
The speech signaled a sharp deterioration in Iraq’s
already shaky political alignment.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki kept his job only
with Kurdish support after his party fell short of a
majority in the 2010 parliamentary elections.
It came a week before an Arab Lague Summit is set to
convene in Baghdad, already shaken by a wave of
deadly attacks by militants.
“It is time to say that enough is enough, because
Iraq is headed toward an abyss, and a small group of
people are about to pull Iraq into a dictatorship,”
Barzani said in a speech that his aides billed as a
major announcement.
He delivered it on the occasion of Nayrouz, the
Kurdish and Iranian new year.
He said Iraq is facing “a serious crisis, and this
situation absolutely is not acceptable to us.”
Kurdish Regional Government President Massoud
Barzani stopped short of directly saying he would
declare independence for the three-province Kurdish
region from the that makes up Iraq’s north.
But he called political agreements between the
region and Baghdad “meaningless” and said he was
willing to put a decision to his people “in order
not to blame us in the future.”
Since 1991, the Kurds of Iraq achieved self-rule in
part of the country. Today's teenagers are the first
generation to grow up under Kurdish rule. Most Kurds
don’t speak Arabic, especially the younger
generation, the 2nd language in Kurdistan after
Kurdish is English language. In the new Iraqi
Constitution, it is referred to as Kurdistan region.
Kurdistan region has all the trappings of an
independent state -- its own constitution, its own
parliament, its own flag, its own army, its own
border patrol, its own national anthem, its own
education system, its own International airports,
even its own stamp inked into the passports of
visitors, a large number of foreign consulates and
embassies are located in Kurdistan's capital, Erbil.
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