"Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has announced a reconciliation deal
between the country's Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish leaders. The Shi'ite leader
made the announcement easing restrictions on Ba'ath party members on national TV
'flanked by Jalal Talabani, the country's Kurdish president, and the Sunni
vice-president, Tareq al-Hashemi,' says the Guardian. The consensus-building
agreement was forged in the wake of a week of political pressure from the White
House and U.S. senators including Hillary Clinton, Carl Levin and John Warner.
Maliki delivered a 'stinging rebuke to Hillary Clinton yesterday, telling her to
stop meddling in the affairs of his country as though it was part of America,'
writes the Independent."
While I tend to support the presidents stand on the war in Iraq, I think it should be noted that the pressure from the Democrats may be having its own effect in Iraq as well. Whatever it takes to get Iraq on its feet, solidly so that our forces can leave and not leave chaos and death.
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