Personally, I think the criticism of Malicki has been a little bit unfair. The Sunnis were the ones who started the insurgency and it was asking alot of the Shiites to hold their responsive fire, which they did until Al Qaeda blew up the Golden Mosque. After that the Sunnis got a little taste of what might happen if they kept pushing the Shiites. So if we are going to point fingers, they should largely be pointed at the Sunnis, who killed tens of thousands of Shiites in the years leading up to the war - and didn’t stop afterwards.
Make that hundreds of thousands (if not millions).
You are right with your asessment. However folks are also rightfully p*ssed off because sole Shia dominance means Iranian supremacy (as long as the Iranian regime is still in place). Without the Iranian regime in the saddle things would look quite different.
The situation in Iraq can never be properly solved as long as the Mullahs in Iran are given a free hand.
Most of the Iraqi Sunnis now have joined our side and for the sake of their nation the Shias have to compromise aswell.