Word: delayer
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CONGRESSMAN ZACH WAMP, Republican of Tennessee, after the House of Representatives reversed a rule change that would have allowed majority leader Tom DeLay to retain his post if indicted. The House later changed another rule to make it harder to oust DeLay if any charges are brought...
...talking interim Defense Minister Hazem Shaalan starts talking about postponing the January 30 election, it's clear that the issue is being considered at the highest levels of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's administration - despite official insistence that the poll will go ahead on schedule. Calls for an election delay from within the government aren't new - interim President Ghazi al-Yawer, a Sunni, has publicly called for a UN assessment on the feasibility of voting on January 30. But Shaalan has until now been one of the more bellicose officials in Allawi's government when addressing security questions...
...ended as a result of the election. But Allawi is under tremendous pressure from both the U.S. and the Shiite majority to proceed on schedule. For the Bush administration, postponement is too great a concession to the insurgency it has struggled to contain in Iraq, let alone defeat. Delay also opens a legal and political minefield - the current interim government has no mandate beyond the January 30 election - and raises the specter of a long-term open-ended U.S. troop commitment. For the Shiites, the election represents a long-awaited opportunity to peacefully assume power proportionate to their demographic majority...
...Allawi stressed in a press conference on Wednesday that he has no authority to delay the election. Such a decision rests with the Iraqi electoral commission, which has indicated it would postpone the vote only if staging it became physically impossible. And, Allawi said, any change in the transition arrangements would have to be decided by the UN Security Council...
...rich countries for skimping on their assistance to the region, the White House lashed back. "I felt like the person who made that statement was very misguided and ill-informed," said President George W. Bush, speaking from his home in Crawford, Texas, three days after the earthquake. Why the delay? Because, White House aides say, the President does not like to "showboat" by speaking too soon after events like this. "He didn't want to go out there and just speak for speaking's sake," says an aide. Democrats made hay of Bush's delayed response and ridiculed the Administration...