Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (17012)	1/27/2007 12:18:30 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

Good news from Iraq: Parliament has approved Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's plan for securing Baghdad, which means that President Bush's new strategy has the legal approval of the Iraqi government. Bad news from Iraq, according to the New York Times: Iraq's Shiite prime minister and Sunni lawmakers hurled insults at one another during a raucous session of Parliament on Thursday, with the prime minister threatening a Sunni lawmaker with arrest and the Sunni speaker of Parliament threatening to quit. That's the lead paragraph. The 27th paragraph--yes, the twenty-seventh--finally informs us of the outcome: Eventually, though, the tensions eased and Parliament approved the security plan. If Parliament had rejected the plan, do you think the Times would have waited until the 27th paragraph to tell us? opinionjournal.com