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Date: Thursday, 03.01.2012 9:08
More: New York Times
in a vote took place on Thursday, and approved 248 of 325 of the members of the Iraqi parliament to pass the budget in 2012 that is considered the largest budget in the history of Iraq - $ 100 billion - which rely exclusively on oil exports, amounting to 2.6 million barrels per day one.
The budget allocated among the other paragraphs of about 31.7 billion dollars of investment - mostly in the infrastructure - and $ 14.6 billion for security forces. Before passing the budget and the House of Representatives approved the purchase of armored vehicles to protect themselves, causing boiling in the Iraqi street.
most Iraqis do not trust much Bssayasém and always accuse of corruption and fomenting sectarian and ethnic polarization that has plagued the country. For many, the idea of spending millions of dollars of parliamentarians in order to protect themselves in a time where people bear the brunt of violence, is a great Tmadia. On passing the budget, presented to the seventieth Iraqis killed and injured nearly four hundred others in a series of bombings and assassinations of Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for them later. The anger of Iraqi armored vehicles is rising in cafes and in the columns of newspapers and websites and social media. Even the religious authority influential in the country have criticized the behavior of parliamentarians, in his Friday sermon criticized Ahmad Safi representative of religious authority Ali al-Sistani what he described as priorities is balanced to the politicians and suggested that the perceived parliamentarians to spend $ 50 million - allocated to the armored car - in the provision of clean drinking water for hundreds of villages that lacks.
that the use of armored vehicles by government officials and foreign diplomats is not something new. Officials escorted convoys guards heavily armed and often cause the busy traffic and closure of roads, but what angered Iraqis more is the lack of a sense of the members of Parliament by ensuring better protection for themselves while being hundreds of citizens to the killings and injuries result of the attacks since the withdrawal of troops American country. And to make matters worse is the fact that Iraqis are touched and they see that politicians are the reason for the recent violence of the clashes and the political wrangling that has fueled sectarian tensions significantly.
books Iraqi journalist Ali Hussein, owner of the eighth column in the Sunday newspaper-term daily "Today We all have to say with one voice .. no .. after scandal armored vehicles, because the blood of the martyrs who have fallen for a new Iraq is worth more than we have before us of expired goods called falsely and slanderously - elected Vice - ". Also grown in popularity cleric Muqtada al-Sadr through condemnation vote parliamentarians to buy armored cars, though it is headed by the movement of a major political representative in Parliament, where he was to allocate the budget as "a disgrace" in the face of the Legislative Council do not go away, but to cancel the approval of armored cars, He added in his position on the Internet "Anyone who rides the armored vehicles is a traitor to his people and his homeland, and even he was disobedient to God."
parliament's decision angered Iraqis at a time failed the parliamentary blocs, which make up the coalition government headed by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, over the weeks to agree on the agenda of the National Congress intended to settle disputes that have undermined the country's security.
this month, the Iraqi authorities in the highest degree of prudence and caution, as it marks the anniversary of the protests that broke out last year in various cities of Iraq along with the uprisings Arab spring, which swept through the Middle East, and demanded justice and an end to corruption and twenty people were killed and hundreds injured at the hands of security forces.
Today, officials are far from the people, says one of the citizens "They told us in the last election that our voices are gone, where is gold ? that my voice has become rust. "
The source revealed yesterday (range) that "there is a proposal dealt with the House of Representatives on the use of wheel armored in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of the 400 wheel that will be used for the delegations of the Arab summit in Baghdad, for use by House of Representatives as a substitute for those that have been rated within the budget of 2012 to avoid the embarrassment that occurred when parliamentarians in front of public opinion and give up a lot of them about the voting process. "
He also criticized the source close to Maliki, the voting process and said, "The age of the armored vehicles and the extent of resistance does not remain dominant more than two years after will turn to the wheels normal, which means that the deputies will buy a regular basis. "
The source continued, "that more than 200 deputies voted in favor of armored vehicles, representing most of the political blocs, Valaracah and the Kurdistan Alliance and most of the components of the National Alliance and agreed to the proposal but everyone was quick to break it to the media to change the wondrous of the positions. "
translation Abdalkhalq Ali
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