Cheney in Iraq: What, no mention of the oil law?

you can't tell me the passage of the oil law wasn't high on the agenda, but it isn't mentioned here...

Vice President Dick Cheney and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki acknowledged problems in the pace of reducing violence in Iraq on Wednesday, but both pledged their governments would continue working together toward a solution.

but maybe we can hazard a reasonable guess about WHEN it was talked about...

Once safely ensconced in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, however, Cheney appeared to reserve his toughest language for his normal target – the press. Cheney held a lot of photo ops with key Iraqi leaders like Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, but was adamant about not taking questions. At one point, Cheney emphasized to the assembled journalists that “this is just a photo spray.” Later in the day, as reporters filed into an embassy conference room for another photo of Cheney they overheard him tell his staff “then we kick the press out.”

wait, wait, wait... HERE IT IS...! i just KNEW it had to be kicking around somewhere...

U.S. officials have been livid since discovering that Iraq’s fledgling parliament – hardly a hive of activity in the first place – was planning to take a two-month summer recess, postponing work on a bill spelling out how oil money would be shared among Iraq’s ethnic and sectarian groups or a law authorizing new regional elections.

goddam it, don't they have a clue about priorities...? whassamadda wit' dose folks, hah...?

"[F]or the Iraqi parliament to take a two-month vacation in the middle of summer is impossible to understand,” [said] The new American ambassador to Baghdad, Ryan Crocker.

poor clueless, ungrateful bastards...

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