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Vice President Dick Cheney was in the Middle East Wednesday trying to put Humpty Dumpty back together. As part of that effort, Baghdad is the first but definitely not the most important stop. Cheney knows as well as anyone that it is a waste of time badgering Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki to stop the chaos - either American troops are going to do that or no one will...
...Sunnis by reopening talks on the constitution, passing a new oil law guaranteeing an equitable sharing of revenues across the regions, reversing most of the purge of former Baathists from political life and government employment, and dismantling sectarian Shi'ite militias. The response of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has been to verbally reassure U.S. envoys all the way up to President Bush, but then to, if not quite ignore U.S. demands, either interpret them so broadly as to make them meaningless, or else simply stall. Al-Maliki is plainly hedging his bets, acceding to U.S. demands...
...Rice called the meeting an "opportunity to signal strong support" for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, but many of Iraq's neighbors see the Maliki government as part of the problem. Although al-Maliki came to office through democratic elections and is supported by Washington, Arab governments in Sunni Muslim countries see the Shi'ite prime minister as an ally of Iran who is helping Tehran extend its influence in Iraq. "Al-Maliki is not representing all of Iraq's people," an Arab diplomat told TIME on the sidelines of the conference. "He is too Iranian. He's serving...
...forces remain in the country. If Rice is hoping that influential Arab moderates will echo the U.S. position, she may be disappointed. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, who earlier this year denounced the U.S. occupation of Iraq as "illegitimate," recently turned down a request from Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to meet in Saudi Arabia before the Sharm conference. "The Saudi king's schedule was not suitable for the timing," Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari said on CNN Sunday...
...apartment buildings down the road from the Republican Palace were limited to the dictator's henchmen and their families. Today it houses many of those trying to build a new Iraq, including members of parliament and the families of officials who work in the office of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. One afternoon, officials from the government's judicial branch squared off in a soccer game against employees of the executive branch. It was the kind of scene you almost never see on the evening news: teenagers from the neighborhood playing freely while men at a nearby outdoor café talked...