[robowombat]

"Sunni, Kurdish and some secular Shiites argue al-Jaafari is too divisive and accuse him of not doing enough to contain waves of revenge killing"

Curious way of putting it. The Shia leadership are enraged mostly that Jaffari has so far proved to be pretty much ineffectual and virtually invisible as the sectarian violence and deliberate terrorist provocations go on. The word is he has only a few more days or a week at best to start acting like a leader or he will be deposed.

[street_lawyer]

How much longer before Schumer takes the microphone on the Senate floor to complain about the Swarmer operation?

[Uncle Jaque]

Re: "...Jaffari has so far proved to be pretty much ineffectual ...he has only a few more days or a week at best to start acting like a leader or he will be deposed."

I expect that he will be.

And waiting in the wings to take his place will be a chap who IS a charismatic and natural "leader", with a keen appitite for power.

And it's apt to be rough sledding for the Coallition when he does achieve it.

The soon to be Shah of Iraq; The chubby but ruthless black-turbaned wolverine...

Muctadda Al-Sadyr