Leaks on Maliki

I've said it before, Muqtada al-Sadr should have been taken out at the very beginning. But since he was allowed not only to live but flourish, now he has a stronghold in the new Iraqi government. He is using that, along with his army, to rise to a place of leadership that will surely bring an end to the democratically elected government. In fact, that is the goal of the violence in Iraq -- to bring down the government. A government Muqtada al-Sadr and others see as an American government.

The White House said on Friday car bombs in a Shi'ite stronghold of Baghdad that killed 202 people and retaliatory attacks afterward were brazen acts aimed at destabilizing Iraq's government. President George W. Bush is meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki today and Thursday in Amman, Jordan. President Bush has already said he will not pull troops out of Iraq.

Lawmakers and cabinet ministers loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have suspended participation in parliament and the government to protest the summit between Bush and Maliki in Jordan.

In yet another leaked document, actually a classified memorandum by President Bush’s national security adviser, serious doubts about whether Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki had the capacity to control the sectarian violence in Iraq werer expressed. The memo recommended that the United States take new steps to strengthen the Iraqi leader’s position. The document said that Maliki's intentions were good, but that he didn't have a plan or the capacity to carry out a plan 'yet'.

The Nov. 8 memo was prepared for Mr. Bush and his top deputies by Stephen J. Hadley, the national security adviser, and senior aides on the staff of the National Security Council after a trip by Mr. Hadley to Baghdad.

The memo suggests that if Mr. Maliki fails to carry out a series of specified steps, it may ultimately be necessary to press him to reconfigure his parliamentary bloc, a step the United States could support by providing “monetary support to moderate groups,” and by sending thousands of additional American troops to Baghdad to make up for what the document suggests is a current shortage of Iraqi forces. (Text of the Memo) source

The key phrase from the memo is, " ... the reality on the streets of Baghdad suggests Maliki is either ignorant of what is going on, misrepresenting his intentions, or that his capabilities are not yet sufficient to turn his good intentions into action.''

Again the United Nations shows their true colors in favor of terrorists and against the United States. A United Nations group of human rights experts on Tuesday called on Iraq's government not to carry out the death sentence passed on former leader Saddam Hussein, saying his trial had been flawed.

In related news, 'a federal judge struck down President Bush's authority to designate groups as terrorists, saying his post-Sept. 11 executive order was unconstitutionally vague, according to a ruling released Tuesday.'

Supreme leader Ali Khamenei, Iran's highest authority, told the Iraqi President last night that the US occupation and US-backed regional "agents" were to blame for the violence in Iraq. Ayatollah Khamenei told Jalal Talabani at talks in Tehran that Iran was ready to help restore security in Iraq if Baghdad wished. Right. All they want is for the United Stated to pull out.

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