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To: i-node who wrote (639545)	12/18/2011 3:04:38 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579742

The Iraq war was the greatest American foreign policy blunder since Vietnam. Saddam held the place together with a gun, then WE did. Now that we've left, it's already falling apart. NOT our job! ========================================================================================= Political Crisis Flares in Iraq SUNNIS WALK OUT OF PARLIAMENT, DEMAND MORE POWER By Neal Colgrass, Newser Staff newser.com Posted Dec 17, 2011 5:09 PM CST (NEWSER) – Iraq's political structure already seems to be unraveling. Before the last US troops have left, Sunni politicians are walking out of parliament and threatening to quit altogether, the Washington Post reports. Ministers in the Sunni Iraqiya bloc are demanding more political power and greater control of Iraq's Shiite-dominated militia—especially after tanks recently surrounded the homes of Sunni politicians in the fortified Green Zone. Sunnis accuse Maliki of taking over the nation's militia; Maliki loyalists say Sunnis are trying to prevent the arrest of Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, who has been linked to terrorism. Trouble is also brewing in one province where Sunni leaders tried to seek regional autonomy, only to see Shiite troops set fire to the governor's home. “We think there are new indications of a new attempt to create a dictatorship,” says a Sunni politician. “We are really worried that the country is being led into chaos and division and the possibility of civil war is there.”