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...patience is at an end. It's difficult to find anyone here outside Maliki's circle of supporters who thinks his government has a role to play in any strategy that might help Iraq at this point. "I see the political situation in Iraq as a deadlock," says Wamydh Nadhmi, a professor of political science at Baghdad University. "I still believe in the future of Iraq - if Mr. Bush brings us radical change...
...candidate, Adil Abdul-Mahdi; current American favorite Iyad Allawi; and, the darkest of dark horses, one-time Pentagon favorite Ahmed Chalabi. Asked to handicap the race last January, a leading Iraqi political scientist was reminded of a bumper sticker from an old U.S. Presidential campaign: ?Thank God,? said Wamid Nadhmi, ?that only one of them will become prime minister...
...Nadhmi was gloomy because he knew that all four were lacking in vision and political skills. ?None of them is a statesman-a Mandela or a Gandhi,? he told me. ?They are all small, ordinary...
...security. It helps that al-Jaafari is acceptable to most of Iraq's ethnic, religious and political groups; opinion polls last year identified him as one of Iraq's most respected politicians. "He is not a divisive figure, and in Iraq today, that is a major asset," says Wamidh Nadhmi, a political scientist and moderate Sunni politician. "I think most Iraqis will feel they can trust...
...poorly organized and scorned by the clerics for having contributed two ministers to interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's government. The other prominent Sunnis likely to contest the elections represent secular parties of uncertain popularity. Adnan Pachachi's Iraqi Independent Democrats, Nasser Chaderchi's National Democratic Party and Wamid Nadhmi's Arab Nationalist Movement are all maneuvering to form electoral alliances with Shi'ite and Kurdish parties rather than appeal to Sunni voters. The highest-ranking Sunni in the U.S.-backed interim government, President Ghazi al-Yawer, hasn't even formed a party of his own. He too is expected...