Is the U.S. military surge working in Iraq?
De Borchgrave: The surge seems to be working. What is not working is the lack of political reconciliation. The Shiites are charging ahead, obviously with Iranian backing, and they’re leaving the Sunnis out of the picture. There are no negotiations between the two to try to bring the Sunnis into some form of coalition government. Nouri Kamel Mohammed Hassan al Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, has been to Iran twice in one year with a government delegation each time, getting along extremely well with the Iranian government, getting financial aid from the Iranians for schools and hospitals. What’s hardly ever reported is the special connection between Maliki, who spent seven years in exile in Teheran while Saddam Hussein was in power, and his very close contacts with Tehran. It tracks back to this Iraq study group report by Lee Hamilton and Jim Baker in which they stated that Iran has more influence in Iraq than the U.S. When we first invaded Iraq almost automatically thousands of Irania
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