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...rationale for invading Iraq - is bogus. Now, dammit, he'll find what's behind that ruse, even if his life is threatened by renegade Baathists and the American high command. Soon he's a one-man army, going rogue or Rambo, dodging not-so-friendly fire and outwrestling an Iraqi thug. He's Bourne again, in Baghdad. (See pictures of the U.S. troops in Iraq...
...with Washington's man in charge, Clark Poundstone (Greg Kinnear); gets mixed signals from Lawrie Dayne (Amy Ryan), a journalist who fed her readers government misinformation about WMD; and finds an ally in Martin Brown (Brendan Gleeson), a grizzled old CIA hand. He also gets help from a reluctant Iraqi informant named Freddy (Khalid Abdalla, playing the film's richest character) in pursuing an elusive Saddamist general, al-Rawi (Igal Naor), who may hold the secret to the mystery. The viewer is free to infer that Poundstone is L. Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, and Dayne...
...Maliki took a risk by separating himself from the Shi'ite Iraqi National Alliance (INA) that had propelled him to power, but struggled nonetheless to present himself as a truly national figure. While he had cracked down hard against terrorism and militias, especially the radical Shi'ite followers of Moqtada al Sadr, his support for a government de-Ba'athification committee that banned 500 parliamentary candidates - including many key Sunni politicians - a few weeks before the election appears to have helped fuel Sunni suspicion that he harbored a sectarian agenda. Maliki's troubles have been a boon to the Sadrists...
There is plenty of reason to be concerned that Iraq's leaders haven't yet learned to compromise. None of the five leading political blocs are likely to emerge from the election with enough seats in parliament to form a government on their own - which means Iraqis may have to endure weeks of political wheeling and dealing. Meanwhile, Iraq's undercurrent of violence and sectarianism is resurfacing as the election nears. Dozens of bodies are turning up daily in the morgues of Baghdad and Mosul, including some with their heads cut off, a signature al-Qaeda calling card. Mortar shells...
...Maliki aide. "Unless the U.S. is behind it." But with a date set for the end of the American occupation, U.S. influence in Iraq is already waning. Ironically, the best proof of that is the rise, once again, of Ahmad Chalabi. The formerly exiled leader of the Iraqi National Congress - an anti-Saddam dissident group - helped the Pentagon plan the invasion of Iraq and was the candidate of U.S. neoconservatives to be the country's new leader. Chalabi fell out with the U.S. in 2004 and has reinvented himself as a Shi'ite nationalist allied with the Sadrists...