".... That's the news: Continued American bombing of residential areas with prohibited weapons; solidarity with nationalist tribes elsewhere in Iraq in the fight against oppression; "the accused person Maliki" lined up with the criminals of the prior regime on the path leading from major crimes to eventual execution. This is the current news for a very large part of the Iraqi population.
I could quote more, you could discuss whether these weapons are really "prohibited internationally" and in what sense; what is he depth of the solidarity with tribes elsewhere; the sectarian implications of the prayers against accused Sadaamists; and so on. Will this be fitna or a national uprising? And so on. But what's the use? The Americans along with Maliki have driven a stake through the heart of peaceful national reconciliation, and the policy-groupies who are lining up to advise the incoming Democratic administration are saying absolutely nothing about it. That's the only point worth making....
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