Or in less diplomatic terms: Sh*t or get off the throne. 'bout time.
Okay, so the "time has come" for the Iraqi's to form a unity government. That is nice to hear, though I thought I'd heard that the "time has come" many times previously. And what if they don't? What if they simply can't put together anything which all the factions could agree on that can last more than a few weeks or months? What then? Impose a new coalition authority government?
I wonder if it occured to anyone who pushed this Iraqi Democracy notion that the Shia would go along with this entire charade only long enough to grow powerful enough to fully seize power and go on to oppress the Sunni minority? Where did this idea come from that a majority of Shia (or Sunni) really want any kind of democracy we could ever even remotely identify with? Wasn't that sortof a dangerous assumption? I mean, we are talking about a populations who's religion dictates that converting to any other religion (among countless other things) requires the death penalty be imposed. Is it really that hard to imagine that maybe, just maybe, everybody the world over does not infact want the same things we do?
Until Saddam leaves the planet there will continue to be loyalists and factions who cling to the hope of restoring the old regime as well as those who will have a hard time cooperating because of fear that it might actually happen. His ruthless sons are dead and I think things would improve quickly if they would finish the trial and rid their country of Saddam forever.