Just a few more hitches on the path to freedom

Democracy is on the march in Iraq, we’re constantly told, except blogger Suadad Al-Salhy writes from inside the parliament and finds:

It seems like 70% of the Iraqi MP’s have no idea what is in the [status of forces] agreement. This is clear from the complaints and criticisms that I hear when I am listening to their questions in the press room of the parliament building, and on the television coverage when I get home.

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