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BAGHDAD, April 17 (UPI) -- A top Iraqi official said the political situation in Iraq favors reconciliation as the Iraqi Accordance Front agrees to return to the central government.
Montaser al-Emareh, the head of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, said a new political environment came out of the conflict in Basra.
He said Basra gave Iraqi politicians a renewed sense of confidence in the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Al-Alam reported Wednesday.
Emareh emphasized Maliki did not target the militia loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, the Mahdi Army, but instead focused on "anti-government armed groups" in Basra, noting Maliki stood by Sadr in the call to deny political parties that retained their militias a role in the political process.
Meanwhile, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the Sunni Iraqi Accordance Front agreed to return to the Maliki government.
"The Sunni parliamentary bloc agreed to return to the government and presented its candidates' names to Maliki to select those who will be appointed as ministers in the government," Dabbagh told Voices of Iraq.
Very good.
All of which does nothing for the American problems with incompetant government led by Pelosi and Reid.
The biggest thing holding up eventual success in Iraq are the American democrats and the liberal american media.