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...Skepticism about the government's ability to clean up the Interior Ministry isn't limited to Sunnis. Mahmoud Othman, a Kurdish member of Iraq's parliament, said he believed Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had the desire to combat militia influence but may not have the power to do so. "I'm sure he's serious," Othman said. "Whether he can do it or not I don't know...
...president's visit, of course, is mainly symbolic - there's little he did in Baghdad that he couldn't have done over a videoconference from Camp David, as his official schedule for the day had called for. But symbolism matters. It puts the President firmly behind new Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki at a moment when speculation in the U.S. has turned to whether the Washington will begin later this year to draw down troop levels...
...speeches. That's why Administration officials continue to credit the Baghdad government with every incremental bit of progress in the country. It was no coincidence that U.S. commanders highlighted the relatively passive participation of Iraqi forces in the al-Zarqawi raid and that Administration officials praised new Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for naming his last three government ministers--even though it took the Iraqis almost two months to agree on them. "The only way they can ever bring down the troop number is to make a strong case to the American people that the people of Iraq are doing...
...President called British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who congratulated his beleaguered counterpart across the Atlantic. Then Bush talked to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for about 25 minutes, and stepped into the Rose Garden. Senior aides, including Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, Counselor Michael Gerson and Communications Director Nicolle Devenish, had been waiting with the press, and Vice President Cheney followed Bush out of the Oval Office and stood far offstage...
Certainly in recent months, most of the violence has been Iraqi-on-Iraqi, with civilians being killed by Shi'ite death squads or Sunni insurgents and jihadis. U.S. forces often find themselves trying to prevent Iraqis from killing one another. On the same day that Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced that the government would launch an investigation into the 24 Haditha killings and called U.S. attacks against Iraqi civilians "a regular occurrence," at least 18 Iraqis died at the hands of their countrymen. The rate of sectarian killings has escalated sharply since the Feb. 22 bombing...