It has been obvious, for a long time, that the Maliki Iraq Government is incapable of Governing. Why does the?

Question

USA still try to work with Maliki?
Shouldn't the USA install an Iraqui Government that works?

Answer 1

I like that "to install". There is no one, I guess....

Answer 2

Contrary to what was ERRONEOUSLY stated earlier, PM Nouri al-Maliki is NOT a Kurd. He is a Shia Muslim Arab, from Karbala Province.

The current President of Iraq is Jalal Talabani, a Sunni Kurd from the powerful Talabani tribe and the founder of the PUK.

Let it be said that the two figures are not easy to mix up, unless you DON'T know what you're talking about in the first place.

Let it also be said that PM al-Maliki has the full backing of SCIRI and the Dawa Party, and the tacit backing of the Mahdi Army. He was ELECTED into power. For the United States to "remove" him and try to "install" someone else turns the entirety of Shia Iraq into enemies and risks outright war between the American military versus the Badr Corps and the Mahdi Army simultaneously. If that's not a recipe for bloodbath, nothing is.

Never mind that forcibly removing PM al-Maliki would raise charges (very legitimate ones) that the American occupation is permanent, the democracy experiment is a sham, and that the will of the people of Iraq does not matter.

In the absence of bringing in half a million troops to impose martial law, there is absolutely no alternative to working with the Shia majority of Iraq, whoever they put in charge.

Answer 3

my dear friend, Mr Maliki is a Kurd, i believe that the Iraqi's don't even consider them Iraqi, having said that ,if you still believe Bush is in there to ensure the process of democracy grows and prospers then you've been sadly mistaken. Oil is the only reason, everybody and his uncle knows this(well, maybe not the Republicans) and until the question about how to divide the resource among his friends is not decided the Iraqi's are going to have to learn to live with it. Having said that it's funny how the Kurds are all of a sudden the most prosperous of all citizens in Iraq( Time Magazine), i guess it's only fair the rest of the Arab countries have been sh**ting on them for centuries..........

Answer 4

OK, from the states it certainly seems like he isn't able to do much to control the violence in Iraq but what is more appalling to me is WHY so many Iraqi citizens are "Wrapping themselves up in death" and destroying themselves and many other Iraqis in the name of religion? No, the US should not install anyone in power, that is up to the Iraqi people

Answer 5

The last time I checked, the United States believed in democracy and the right of nations to choose their own leaders. They shouldn't "install" anyone.

Answer 6

How is this so 'obvious?'

99% of what the Iraq government does never makes it to the US media.

Answer 7

I am intrigued and appalled that Ms Rice is only now talking to the Syrians, and maybe Iranians. In my universe, if you want to solve a problem, you involve all the people involved in discussions to find a solution. Holding your breath until you turn blue, which is what the US is doing, in the hope that other people will give in is a tactic that most 5 year olds have outgrown.

Answer 8

After living under the reign of sadam insane for more than 30 years, it's very understandable that the Iraqi's don't know how to act freely.

Answer 9

how many times have you heard bush chenney or rice say "we keep telling them they have to step up for their country?

Well, you shouldnt have to beg this Iraqi country to do what it should have already done.

But the simple fact that Bush or any republican has refused to ever talk about benchmarks is enough to send the message that there is an open ended never ending date for Iraq nomatter what they do or fail to do.

So why should they do anythign when America seems ot be sacrificing the most money and her troops?

Bush's foreign policy -- FAILURE!!!!