Iraq's Civil War

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As a lawyer you should know that that is not true .
The legal requirements for forming a government were not kept , the law states that failure to form a government within the time limit must result in new elections .
Since the time limit was exceded (by a long way) new elections were required to have a legitimate government .

Didn't the national assembly vote on the extensions? Didn't Shia's and Kurds have the majority needed to ratify, but instead backed in hopes of brining the Sunni's back to the table and open the floor to further talks? If I remember correctly the Constitution was submitted before midnight of the deadline, but they put off a vote which was within their right to encourage those very talks. So what you would rather see happen is a constant re-electing of the parliament every time constitutional negotiations broke down or worse yet, a national assembly which is paralyzed not by speeches and deadlock, but by threats of violence. Ironically the Sunni's who consistently threaten Iraq with civil war were the ones who largely boycotted elections in the first place. I think what this largely boils down to is a faction facing life for the first time as the minority.