One way traffic... the wrong way

Human Rights Watch released a paper today that highlights the difficulties now being faced by Iraqis fleeing the violence in search of asylum. It speaks volumes that some countries are not doing enough to seal their borders to stop suicide bombers entering Iraq, but are doing what they can to stop refugees leaving Iraq. What a place.

I heard another interesting thing today - since Sadr withdrew his cabinet members from the government yesterday, Ayad Allawi is trying to piece together another coaliton that would take over from this useless bunch of shits for a government. That's great news if he can pull it off. He's widely seen by many Iraqis as a puppet for the US, having spent some time as interim prime minister before this lot were elected. But they also see this lot as being puppets too, only this lot have been a complete waste of space. While many Iraqis don't see Allawi as the ideal choice of PM, he is by far the best of a bad bunch. (Sounds a bit like western leaders to me)