Posted on 12/21/2011 2:51:36 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki walks off stage after addressing the US Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Washington, Dec. 13.
Iraq is in political crisis, less than a week after the formal end of direct US involvement in the war there. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has brought terrorism charges against Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, is moving to oust Sunni Deputy Prime Minister Saleh Mutlaq from his position, and has threatened to take away the nine cabinet seats held by the largely Sunni Iraqiyya bloc and replace them with members of his own Shiite governing coalition.
Mr. Hashemi, a Sunni Islamist who heads the Iraqi Islamic Party, is a member of the Iraqiyya bloc, and had a number of close family members murdered during Iraq's civil war. Hashemi had some ties to Iraq's insurgency during the worst of the fighting (when former Monitor reporter Jill Carroll was released by her Sunni kidnappers in 2006, she was dropped off in front of his office) but has worked as much as any on his side of the fence to forge sectarian reconciliation in the years since.
But now he has fled to Kurdistan, where he's being shielded from his arrest warrant. In a televised news conference today, Mr. Maliki threatened the Kurdish north with "problems" if they don't hand over Hashemi.
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A lot of blood letting and old scores to be settled in Iraq.
And how long will it be before Iraq is again ruled by a tyrant whose strings are being pulled by both Iranians and Islamofascists?
Duh...
The gloves will come off soon — the insurgency will be fighting a foe that’s not hamstrung with P.C. ROE.
Nouri al-Maliki Iraq’s new Saddam Hussein
When the civil war in Iraq reignites, you will not hear about it.
2012 is an election year, and such a disaster so close to Obama’s troop pullout will not look good. the MSM will strictly ignore it.
Mission accomplished. Thanks, Dubya. Thanks, Cheney. Thanks Rummy et al.
Oh yeah — thanks to the families of the 5,000+ Americans who gave their lives for this folly and fraud. I sincerely regret that they sacrificed their lives for nothing.
I think maliki will be worse. He is an iranian shia puppet. Expect genocide. Sunni and Kurdish, unless they join forces and even then, it will be bloody civil war.
Even worse...at least Saddam wasn't an Iranian loving Shiite!
I thought Muqti al Sadr would begin the festivities.
They are getting ready to rock and roll in Iraq.
Errrr-————Maybe that’s Lock and Load.
If the Christians left there are lucky the Muslims will kill one another and leave the Christians alone.
I wonder...will we get utube videos of them killing each other? Get me some popcorn...
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