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...This government is not suitable for Iraq any more," says Salleh al-Muttlag, an Iraqi parliament member. "It should end as soon as possible." The leader of a Sunni opposition bloc, Muttlag has never been high on Maliki. But his call for Maliki's resignation, one of many now rising in the wake of Saddam Hussein's execution , goes beyond demands for new leadership in the prime minister's office. Muttlag says the entire U.S.-backed political structure in Iraq, parliament included, should be torn down and rebuilt. "Reconciliation will never happen under the Maliki government or a similar government...
...parliament was essentially dissolved in November, when Sadr's loyalists began a boycott at his behest in protest of Maliki's meeting with President Bush. As the White House crafts its new approach to Iraq, little of the government appears salvageable even in the eyes of leaders like Muttlag who are staking their careers, and sometimes their lives, on the eventual success of a civilian government. With so little material left to work with in Baghdad, many in Iraq are looking to Washingto n for a bold political stroke that would sweep the sitting government from power as more...
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