Who Is The Audience?

I was listening to the NPR and heard the opening of the Iraqi National Assembly and the speech made... in English!!! Now, does anyone find this interesting that the Iraqis choice of language in the first opening of their "freely" elected National Assembly--a presumably historic moment--choose to make the speech in English. I wonder who is the audience? Mr. Ali Baba in Mosul or Mr. Smith in Iowa? My money is on the latter...

Don't we think that this is not lost on the Iraqis?

Iraqi Assembly Convenes