Why Isn’t Anyone Giving Obama Credit for Ousting Maliki?
... presidency, he and his Administration realized that Nuri Kamal al-Maliki was part of the problem, not part of the solution. It did ... ... first the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria/the Levant/al-Sham (ISIS or ISIL) and now just Islamic State (IS) might possibly have ... ... would also strengthen an Iraqi government that was in line with Iran in many ways and had resisted accommodating the U.S. government ... ... of the problem, not part of the solution. The cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose family had a long history of resistance in Iraq, going ...
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