Monsieur Veto

That "constitution" that Khalílzád Pasha of AEI and GOP vouchsafed his Party's neo-Iraqi subjects continues to amaze, Mr. Bones: did you ever distinctly notice that there are three times as many opportunities for Executive Branch nullification in the former Iraq as chez nous?

... [T]he Iraqi Accordance Front (IAF) rejected accusation made by a member of the Unified Iraqi Coalition to the Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, who was described as "practicing dictatorship." (...) MP from the Shiite Unified Iraqi Coalition Sami al-Askari said that "the vice president - he did not mention his name - is practicing dictatorship in using veto against draft laws and some draft laws need 3/5 majority, which is not possible because of the absence of the legislators." "The parliament will not be able to approve any law as the vice president vetoes more than 20 draft laws," al-Askari also said. The Iraqi constitution gives the president and the two vice presidents the right to veto any draft law approved by the parliament and send it back to be amended or reviewed by the government.

Of course "practicing dictatorship" is a thoroughly absurd charge, for no "Hashimite Republic of Táriq" can be established on the positive side when heretics and hillbillies can veto His TwentyPercenter Excellency quite as kiddie-konstitutionally as the other way around.