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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki

He is a shiite, just like his predecessor. Controlled by Iran. He was a member of the DAWA, an organization that our State Department accused of bombing our embassy.

We will not achieve victory until Iran and Syrian support for terror is taken out of the picture. President Bush has not done anything about those to terrorist sanctuaries, why? How many years with no action against those two countries that are complicit in killing our troops?

I think it's a balancing act. The Shiite terrorists have links with Iran and Syria. But al Qaeda is basically Wahabi style Sunni terrorists. It's hard to say which is worse, the Wahabi or the Shia fanatics. Then there's the Muslim Brotherhood out of Egypt, with their ties to Communism and world connections to the Left.

We certainly need to control the worst of the Shia troublemakers, but we don't want to put the Sunni fundamentalists in the saddle either. It seems to me that these materials are almost impossible to work with, no matter how you slice it. We got behind Saddam in the first place because he seemed like the best way to control these nutjob factions. Ha.