Iraqi MPs call Maliki 'depraved'

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Source: BBC News

Iraqi deputies have denounced the government, using a quotation from the Koran to describe Prime Minister Nouri Maliki as "depraved".

The criticism came from the bloc of MPs who support the Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr - which once backed Mr Maliki.

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Three Sadrist deputies called a news conference in the Green Zone government and diplomatic compound in Baghdad on Thursday, at which they denounced Mr Maliki and his government.

They held up pictures of dead Iraqi civilians they said were killed by government forces, backed by US troops, in Sadr City.


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[Supersedeas]

1. Nothing to see here -- feed the 'Merican people more news of success and progress if they get any

News from Iraq at all.

[Doctor_J]

2. Winning hearts and minds

Why do these people hate freedom so much?

[acmavm]

3. What I cannot figure out is how Petraus thinks that the continual

bombardment by the US from the air will make things better. Is the US strategy truly 'kill them all'?

And it is just not Iraq. The people of the entire Middle East see this. It's generating so much hatred that we'll never live it down because generation upon generation will pass on that hate. Those are the songs they'll sing for a thousand years. Hatred for America, not the love songs that

And two carriers in the area? Are we fooling anyone? Are we intimidating anyone? I doubt it.