Four more ministers withdraw from Maliki's crumbling Cabinet

[G_j]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=340&objectid=10456404

Four more ministers withdraw from Maliki's crumbling Cabinet
5:00AM Wednesday August 08, 2007


Baghdad - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's unity government plunged deeper into crisis yesterday when four secularist ministers withdrew from Cabinet meetings, less than a week after the main Sunni Arab bloc quit.

There are now no Sunni members left in Maliki's unity government.

A total of 17 ministers, nearly half of Maliki's Cabinet, have now quit or are boycotting meetings at a time when he is under growing pressure from frustrated US officials to make demonstrable progress in reconciling Iraq's warring sects.
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[ananda]

1. Could it be.. yes, can it be.. is it just possible that..

Maliki is a convenient scapegoat for the Bush failures in Iraq.

Let's put the fault on Maliki and Iraqi's. Give them impossible
goals to achieve, conditions for our getting out.. which we
ermm never plan to do.. and when everything falls apart,
blame Maliki.. blame -them- .. even though we started it
and hold blanket responsibility for the entire mess.

Sue

[H2O Man]

2. Right.

I think the Cheney administration will try to make Maliki a symbol of failure, rather than take ANY responsbility for what they have caused. I also think that, because things are threatening to spin far more out of control in Iraq, that the Cheneyites will attempt to use this to justify increased US occupation there.

[G_j]

3. sometimes I wonder

if they didn't plan to create a complete nightmare with no real solution after all.