Joseph L. Galloway | Maliki Fiddles as Iraq Burns

Joseph L. Galloway begins: "Just when it seemed that the situation in Iraq couldn't get any murkier, more muddled or more dangerous, it did. Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, our 'friend' or our client, if you will, has openly declared his independence from us and his dependence on his most important domestic supporter, the anti-American Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army militia. Maliki, it's becoming clear, is as big a part of the problem in Iraq as al-Sadr and his gang of thugs and murderers. But President Bush is, well, staying the course with Maliki with all the obstinacy that he's displayed throughout his sojourn in Iraq."

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