NYT: Iraqi political landscape is more fractured than ever, but US have no one to replace al-Maliki

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/world/middleeast/20iraq.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

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A senior American official in Baghdad said that although the Iraqi political landscape was more fractured than ever, the Americans had no option but to support Mr. Maliki and keep pushing for meaningful power-sharing agreements. There is no other political figure who can replace Mr. Maliki at this time, he said. Every few weeks, some Iraqi politicians talk of forming an alternative political bloc in Parliament, but the chances of that actually happening are next to zero, he said.

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1. Explain why the U.S. should have any say in who the political leader of Iraq

...should be anyway? Let the UN deal with this issue and get our troops out now

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2. My gut says Maliki is a wolf in sheeps clothing.

I do not think he has any interest in peace until most of the Sunnis are either dead or have left what is left of Iraq.