Friday, November 23, 2007

RECONCILATION? NOT SO MUCH

The Sunnis and Shia are no closer to political reconciliation now than they were in November 2006. Because that is the strategic objective of teh Surge, we can now conclude that it FAILED.

Maliki's public feud with Sunni official highlights Iraq's divisions Posted on Thursday, November 22, 2007

BAGHDAD — The sniping is incessant, the skirmishes bruising. For months, the verbal warfare between Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite Muslim, and his Sunni vice-president, Tariq al-Hashemi, has been escalating.

Now Iraqi politicians and American diplomats and analysts fear that the very public feuding between two of Iraq's most influential leaders will doom even the minimal hopes that exist for progress on a host of key benchmarks — such as holding provincial elections and equitably sharing oil revenues.

Despite a dramatic decline in violence, there's been no sign of reconciliation among Iraq's leaders and no progress on many key issues, according to U.S. and Iraqi assessments.

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