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Maliki's being given one week. So good
luck, Dick. Maybe he should have brought his shotgun, because a bomb went off in the Green Zone shortly after he arrived. But that's just part of the problems we're facing right now; and you thought it couldn't get any worse.
Both Sunni and Shiite political factions are threatening to withdraw from
the already weak government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a prospect
that threatens the political accommodations needed to calm Iraq's sectarian
warfare.Maliki supporters say the threats are nothing more than the bluster of negotiations
and that the prime minister will be able to hold his fragile coalition together.But Sunni politicians said Tuesday that they're serious about pulling out
of parliament over what they say is Maliki's reluctance to share power. Maliki
is a Shiite.Meanwhile, rumors are swirling that loyalists of anti-American cleric Muqtada
al-Sadr also are considering breaking away from the Shiites' United Iraqi
Alliance in the legislature, a move that would rob that ruling political bloc
of its slim majority.Sadr followers denied that, but they said the cleric has asked them to reach
out to rival Sunni groups. … ..
Dick is supposed to talk about the two-month summer vacation the Iraqi parliament is going to take, then it's off to stroke the Saudis, or did he do that before he landed in Iraq? It's so hard to keep his puddle jumping straight.
September is looking too far away today.
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