Thread: Iraq/Dinar News. 09/05 to 01/14/07

Originally Posted by Felita

Hello everyone! Have you seen this from Iraqipresidency site? "The Presidency ratified the Investment Law", Thursday: November 30, 2006!!

A ratified proposal means a "Yes" vote. So, does this mean it is a go?

Originally Posted by WebGuy75903

Excellent Find, Felita. Here is the link: Translated version of http://www.iraqipresidency.net/news.php?language=arabic&type=news

Awesome!!! So, let me get this straight.. What this means to us is that it is now LEGAL for us to own our stock. It is now legal for foreigners to go in and set up shop if they wish. This does NOT mean that big oil companies can go in and begin drilling. That requires the HCL. Am I on track or did I take a left turn somewhere.

ITAR-TASS

13abc.com: Iraq PM asks Sadr loyalists to end boycott

ABC News: Maliki: Iraqi Forces to Take Control in June

http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...1_%5BFeed%5D-2

iraq - Google News

Translated version of http://www.iraqigovernment.org/index-EN.htm

Originally Posted by readytogo

Hmmmm? The Chase bank in Tulsa, OK is not selling to anyone that has not had an account there for at least a year. Is anyone buying from them? Was it Wm.Knowles that lives near the one in Broken Arrow right outside of Tulsa? If so, could you be so kind as to check this out for me and others who have used this one in the past? Thanks in advance.

Not all my Ex's are in Texas. My First Love is in Tulsa. Now I dont know if she has been with them a Year are more. But I am the one that told here to get involved less than a year ago. And Guess what? She still listens to me. She was in Jenks, But has been in Tulsa for a while now. I will give her a shout soon.

Originally Posted by Alphamystic

Holy cow!!

This is huge, awesome find!!!



RV Time!!

YEAH BABY YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by sassy

A quick reply about the CHASE BANKS. We were told that you had to have an account with them for a year before they would sell anymore. Do you happen to have an account with them? Just curious! THANKS LISA

Yep, Have had an account with Chase for a little over a year now and just opened up another a couple of months ago.

By the way, you all are right about the larger denoms being easier to handle and they all spend the same!

I'm hoping that when I go in this afternoon to pick up my dinar, I can tell the teller that I'll be back in the am to hand them back unopened and say "convert to US$ and put it in my account"!

WOOOOHOOOO! (that's a Texas WOOT!)

Please excuse if already posted. I know it is off our subject, but thought someone might be interested. thanks,

Associated Press
Iraq Panel Set to Urge Troop Pullback
By LOLITA C. BALDOR 11.30.06, 2:37 PM ET

A bipartisan commission on U.S. policy in Iraq will urge a pullback of some U.S. troops in Iraq, but will not recommend a specific timetable for withdrawing U.S. forces, an official familiar with the panel's deliberations said Thursday.

The Iraq Study Group's report, to be released next Wednesday, will press for a greater shift in responsibility for the country's security from American to Iraqi forces. It will also "acknowledge that the presence of (U.S.) troops is part of the problem" in Iraq, said the official, who requested anonymity because the panel's recommendations have not been made public.

The report also urges a major push to engage Syria and Iran in a diplomatic initiative aimed at providing a greater regional dialogue, the official said.

The panel will demand more accountability from the Iraqi government, although it's not clear how progress would be measured or if there would be specific benchmarks, the official said.

In Baghdad, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told ABC News Thursday that he thinks Iraqi forces will be ready by June 2007 to take full control of security. In making the argument that his military and police could handle security in the country, al-Maliki has routinely said the force could do the job within six months.

The New York Times and Washington Post (nyse: WPO - news - people ) reported in Thursday's editions that the commission will urge a major withdrawal of U.S. combat forces.

The Times, citing unidentified people familiar with the report, said the panel would recommend a gradual pullback of the 15 U.S. combat brigades, but does not state whether those forces should be pulled back to isolated bases in Iraq or to neighboring countries. Such brigades usually number 3,000 to 5,000 troops.

Their redeployment would still leave tens of thousands of American troops in the country, including 70,000 who would advise Iraqi forces, provide logistical support and serve as a rapid reaction force, the Times said.

On Thursday, days ahead of the report's release, President Bush seemed to reject the idea of pulling out troops.

"This business about a graceful exit just simply has no realism to it at all," he said at a news conference in Jordan with al-Maliki by his side.

The group's recommendation for pulling back U.S. troops represents a compromise among Republican and Democratic members who went into final deliberations this week with differing views on the value of timelines and deadlines for U.S. military engagement. The result is a recommendation that the United States make clear that its troop commitment is not open-ended, while leaving the timeframe for withdrawal vague.

The study group's members - five Democrats and five Republicans - had been split over the appropriate U.S. troop levels in Iraq, and whether and how to pull American forces out, according to one official close to the panel's deliberations.

The commission's recommendations are nonbinding.

The compromise strategy would allow the U.S. government to put al-Maliki's fragile governing coalition on notice that it must settle its own differences, tamp down sectarian violence and prepare to assume growing responsibility for the country's security. It could also give the Republican Bush administration political cover to step back from red lines it has set in the Iraq conflict, such as Bush's statement this week that he will never "pull the troops off the battlefield before the mission is complete."

Bush offered a slightly toned-down statement of resolve Thursday. The chaotic summit with al-Maliki was hastily arranged by the White House last week, as tit-for-tat violence in Iraq reached new levels. It took place against the backdrop both of the coming recommendations for a shift in U.S. policy and a leaked memo outlining U.S. doubts about al-Maliki's job performance.

Without any specific reference to the commission, Bush acknowledged a general pressure for U.S. troop withdrawals but said, "We'll be in Iraq until the job is complete, at the request of a sovereign government elected by the people."

Meanwhile, former President Clinton said violence in Iraq now fits "the normal definition of a civil war." He spoke in an interview on CNN to be broadcast Friday. The Bush administration has refused to label the Iraq conflict a civil war, in part out of worry that the definition would further erode support for the war in the United States.

The administration also is conducting its own crisis evaluation of Iraq, which could provide a different kind of political cover. With at least two sets of recommendations before him, Bush could pick some from the commission chaired by Republican former Secretary of State James A. Baker III and former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., and some from his own advisers.

Hamilton said Wednesday the group has reached a consensus and would announce its proposals next week.

Speaking at a forum on national security at the Center for American Progress, a liberal group, Hamilton declined to disclose any specifics about the group's decisions.

"This afternoon, we reached a consensus ... and we will announce that on Dec. 6," Hamilton said. "We're making recommendations."

Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman the National Security Council traveling with Bush in Jordan, said the White House had not yet been given a briefing about the recommendations and had no comment on the news reports.

Defense officials, meanwhile, said the Pentagon is developing plans to send four more battalions to Iraq early next year. The extra combat engineer units of Army reserves would total about 3,500 troops and would come from around the United States, said officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because the deployments have not been announced.

There are currently about 139,000 U.S. troops in Iraq; some 20,000 are in and around Baghdad, the capital.

Associated Press writers Beverley Lumpkin and Pauline Jelinek contributed to this report.

X-CELL-ENT NEWS TODAY!!!

I'm so EXCITED.....I just can't hide it....I'm about to lose control and I think I LIKE IT!!!!!! WOOOOOOTTTT!!! WOOOOOOTTTT!!!


CHEERS!
DayDream

They are saying that he had an Eyeball to Eyeball meeting with Iraqi's PM and it was an important meeting! Also stated was the troop commitment, etc. Maliki says that June 2007 they will be ready to take over! Did we hear that before?

The Iraq/Baker unit will have their input shortly, I am sure!

Originally Posted by Felita

Hello everyone! Have you seen this from Iraqipresidency site? "The Presidency ratified the Investment Law", Thursday: November 30, 2006!!

This is one heck of a first post!