Saturday, December 29, 2018

Iraq's prime minister nominated the sister of ISIS to his Cabinet and Parliament confirmed her

For a little over two months now, Iraq's Prime Minister Adil Abdul al-Mahdi has struggle to form a Cabinet.  After the disappointment of his failure to appoint people to head the security ministries (Minister of Interior and Minister of Defense), the big criticism was his failure to appoint a single woman to his Cabinet.  Last Thursday, he managed to finally find a woman who he was comfortable working with:  Shaima Al-Hayali.

The Parliament was comfortable with her as well and she was confirmed to the Cabinet as Minister of Education.

That was Thursday.  Today?  She resigned. (Or offered her resignation.  Presumably, it's accepted).

RUDAW reports she came under criticism because her brother worked with ISIS.


Accused of?

Normally, we would say "accused of."  But in her resignation statement she acknowledges that he did work with ISIS (she states he was forced to).

Which goes to just how inept the prime minister is.

How do you miss that?

How does your background check miss that?

And if you don't miss it, how do you not anticipate the uproar that will greet this nomination?

Yet again, we are confronted with the reality that Adil Abdul al-Mahdi is not qualified to be prime minister.


The following community sites -- plus Jody Watley --updated:




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    2018 closing thought?
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    • The Official Jody Watley Website
    Jody Watley on Michael Vitti Mi-Soul Radio Funky Nation Best of 2018
    13 hours ago 



  • Thomas Friedman is a Great Man
    White Helmets were War Criminals
    1 day ago
  • Mikey Likes It!
    Scott Shane the fake ass reporter
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    Expanding drone strikes ten fold. Transforming Libya, formerly Africa’s most prosperous state, into a paradise for slave-selling terrorists. Bombing 8 countries throughout his presidency. Enabling Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen. Arming jihadists in Syria. What’s not to admire?
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    How Syria is celebrating Christmas this year, at peace and free of terrorism.
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