but iraq just elected this guy last month. it's true that the american rhetoric on democracy rarely approximates anything approaching reality, but it's really absurdly off the wall to ask a government with a weeks old mandate to resign in the face of a terrorist insurgency.

what's clear, though, is that the reason the americans are not providing iraq with weapons to fight off the terrorists is that they'd prefer that the terrorists eject the government, because it's perceived as too close to iran. the rest of this is some kind of twisted mafia charade presenting itself as political theatre.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGHiecfrCGQ