http://www.itv.com/news/update/2014-06-12/iranian-troops-help-iraq-re-take-iraqi-town-of-tikrit/ And so, in a masterful display of the unpredictable shift of geopolitics, the day was 'saved' when the Iranians decided to step in to bail out their proxy in charge of Iraq. Iranian soldiers, unlike the soldiers of the US-created and US-equipped Iraqi
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Or at least NdGT.
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I fugure that Maliki wants to be in bed with the Iranians but it remains to be seen how the more Sunni and Sufi aligned south will take that.
Not well, I imagine.
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And well no shit, never claimed that Maliki was anything other than bad news. The only question was just how "third-world-dictator" he was going to go, and now it seems we have our answer.
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