By Harold Meyerson--Wednesday, January 10, 2007
If any Americans could truly understand Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, George Bush and Karl Rove should. All three firmly believe that the successful politician must above all cultivate his base -- not that any of them can point to recent successes.
In refusing to do anything to curtail the anti-Sunni pogroms of Moqtada al-Sadr's legions, Maliki, after all, is just dancin' with the ones that brung him.
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Unless and until Congress stops him, Bush will keep on doing what he's doing, and the hard-core conservatives will stick with him. The mystery is why he believes Maliki, and the hard-core Shiites, will behave any differently.
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Yes, indeed.
Before this nightmare can be over, Congress has to develop a spine.
The last I saw, Edward Kennedy was a voice crying in the wilderness.
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I think you have this pegged. Al Malarki will make noise, and perhaps a token gesture, but he won't take on Al Sadr.
and 'victory in Iraq' depends on him.
god help us.
Yup. For him to take on Al Sadr wpuld be like Bush taking on Cheney.
it's pretty hard to take on the guy that's making your mouth move.
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