KUWAIT (Reuters) -Kuwait's Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Sabah, in his first speech as emir since the death of his predecessor last week, criticised lawmakers and the government on Wednesday for decisions he said had damaged the national interests of the U.S. allied state. Sheikh Meshal, 83, castigated decisions to appoint people to positions that were "not consistent with the simplest rules of justice and fairness" and objected to pardons granted by his predecessor. The new emir did not say which p