{"id":8596,"date":"2006-09-28T10:54:57","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T14:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8596.html"},"modified":"2006-09-28T10:54:57","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T14:54:57","slug":"prime-minister-nuri-kamal-scapegoat-al-maliki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/prime-minister-nuri-kamal-scapegoat-al-maliki\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Nuri Kamal &#8216;Scapegoat&#8217; al-Maliki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, senior American officials <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/09\/20\/world\/middleeast\/20maliki.html?ex=1316404800&#038;en=99968add0970d73c&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">leaked word<\/a> to the New York Times that they&#8217;re no longer confident that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki has what it takes to hold the country together. Patience, the NYT reported, is &#8220;wearing thin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A week later, U.S. officials are still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/09\/27\/AR2006092702063.html\">getting the word out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senior U.S. military commanders are questioning whether Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has the political will to weed out official corruption and tackle the brutal militias that are threatening to plunge Iraq into civil war. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The questions about Maliki are being posed only privately, with U.S. officials in their public statements still voicing cautious confidence in Maliki&#8217;s ability to recognize and tackle the problems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And speaking of problems, the past week saw the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/09\/28\/world\/middleeast\/28iraq.html?ex=1317096000&#038;en=e0b89537c8c3dc22&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">highest number of suicide bomb attacks<\/a> of any week since the American-led invasion in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t suppose Maliki will be held out as a scapegoat, do you? The Bush gang wouldn&#8217;t do that, would they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, senior American officials leaked word to the New York Times that they&#8217;re no longer confident that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki has what it takes to hold the country together. Patience, the NYT reported, is &#8220;wearing thin.&#8221; A week later, U.S. officials are still getting the word out. Senior U.S. military commanders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}