I DO BELEIVE THAT IRAQ'S DARK FUTURE IS LARGELY CAUSED BY THE BUASSED SECTERIAN POLITICIANS WHO CONSTITUTE THE VAST MAJORITY,SO SADLY. HOWEVER,ONE MUST NOT FORGET THAT THIS NEW POLICY FROM THE UNITED STATES IS IN A BIG PART A DISTRACTING ONE FROM THE TRUTH ON GROUND. WITH ALL DO RESPECT TO ALL,IF THE SURGE OF US TROOPS ACCOMPLISHED ANYTHING THEN IT WAS A HIGHER NUMBER OF DEATHS AMONG BOTH SIDES AND THIS IS THE TRUTH BEYOND MUCH DOUBTS... ADD TO THAT THE HIDDEN LONG HANDS WHO MADE IRAQ THE BATTEL FIELD FOR THEM IN THEIR FIGHT AGAINST THE USA. THE BIGGEST LOSER IN ALL THIS OFCOURSE IS NONE OTHER THAN THE IRAQI CITIZEN AND THE SLAUGHTERED COUNTRY, but after all there is nothing personal about that . it is just POLITICS

Majeed, Aleppo,

I DO BELEIVE THAT IRAQ'S DARK FUTURE IS LARGELY CAUSED BY THE BUASSED SECTERIAN POLITICIANS WHO CONSTITUTE THE VAST MAJORITY,SO SADLY. HOWEVER,ONE MUST NOT FORGET THAT THIS NEW POLICY FROM THE UNITED STATES IS IN A BIG PART A DISTRACTING ONE FROM THE TRUTH ON GROUND. WITH ALL DO RESPECT TO ALL,IF THE SURGE OF US TROOPS ACCOMPLISHED ANYTHING THEN IT WAS A HIGHER NUMBER OF DEATHS AMONG BOTH SIDES AND THIS IS THE TRUTH BEYOND MUCH DOUBTS... ADD TO THAT THE HIDDEN LONG HANDS WHO MADE IRAQ THE BATTEL FIELD FOR THEM IN THEIR FIGHT AGAINST THE USA. THE BIGGEST LOSER IN ALL THIS OFCOURSE IS NONE OTHER THAN THE IRAQI CITIZEN AND THE SLAUGHTERED COUNTRY, but after all there is nothing personal about that . it is just POLITICS

Majeed, Aleppo,

What results were expected from a war that should have never been started?

Alton Post, Pittsburgh, PA

Seems when Maliki started talking to Iran DC gets nervous. But someone has to negotiate peace. Seems Maliki is doing what DC should have been doing a along.

Steve, San Diego,

That's it, continue to hang the sword of Democles on Al-Maliki's head.
Perhaps it will get him moving.

mbawmba, Jamaica, Jamaica

Maliki and the other officials were freely elected by the Iraqi people weren't they. What will it look like, installing U.S. puppets, because we don't like the ones they elected. Granted, their government is a failure and few in Iraq think it has any real power.

With the Shiites being such a large majority, they are going to be hard pressed to find a Shiite leader who isn't primarily interested only in Shiite interests. If they aren't, the Shiite militia will take that person out.

Sam Renwig, Omaha, Nebraska

If both U.S. political parties, along with involvement by every other powerhouse country in the world have not been able to solve the wars in Israel for the last 50 years, why would replacing Mr Maliki make a difference in Iraq. There is absolutely no validity to anything in this article, or the conclusions arrived at by two of the hundreds of representatives from the U.S. making their assessment. They provide no reason, no logic and not even a tiny inkling of a possible solution. The only solution is to keep pumping in money, troops and support for the next hundred years and make this a win, at any cost.

Jeff Dunham, Yacolt, USA/ WA

Just like America and the Soivets playing musical chairs with the puppet South Vietnamese governments and Kabul regimes respectively when both wars went sour.

Mark Klein, M.D., Oakland, California

Maliki is already reading the writing on the wall. That is why he is in Syria after just visiting Tehran. How can a goverment reconcile if it is on vacation ?

BILL, COLUMBUS, OHIO

Hasn't the Americans caused enough troubles there? Didn't Americans install him as their leader since Saddam wouldn't bow the knee to the Fed? Perhaps it would be more prudent to oust Bush seeing that pertains more than someone in another country. It should be noted that it will be impossible to have a leader that that can genuinely care about his people while he has another country like the Americans always wanting him to care more about the welfare of Americans. This is 2007 not 1957 we need to pick up the intellect here just a bit. Ousting the Federal Reserve would be a great start. Those Iraqis know better than giving their life for the Fed, perhaps Americans should follow their example and then both countries could finally have a great leader.

Jim Reynolds, Salt Lake City, US Utah

Not ANOTHER regime change in Iraq!

James Martin, Neath, Wales,UK