Maliki jumped off Bush’s sinking ship to ride with Obama

Any­body won­dered why this tone change in (Cole’s, Aardvark’s) posts? Why the duo out of the sud­den not crit­i­ciz­ing Maliki, SOFA and the long Amer­i­can pres­ence? Here is the rea­son, explained on Assafir’s arti­cle “Why Maliki sup­ports Obama?”.

Prime Min­is­ter Nuri al-Maliki of the Green Zone in Bagh­dad is the fastest jump off Bush’s dis­ap­pear­ing ship, and not to say sink­ing in the global polit­i­cal Sea. He jumped and rides behind Obama on the back of a horse head­ing to the White House.

Maliki turned in the eyes of Demo­c­ra­tic Party more Demo­c­rat than the Democ­rats them­selves, espe­cially that his posi­tion is con­sis­tent with the Democ­rats view and their can­di­date Obama that in 2010 is the begin­ning of U.S. with­drawal from Iraq.

The arti­cle says that there are two rea­sons for this change in Maliki’s posi­tion, from defender of the Amer­i­can forces pres­ence in Iraq into pub­licly ask­ing for a timetable for the with­drawal of the Amer­i­can forces in Iraq.

The truth is that the above ques­tion, is not that hard to answer, and depends on two fac­tors: the first is inter­nal and the other is “American”.

On the inter­nal level — con­trary to the gov­ern­ment pro­pa­ganda, secu­rity is not improv­ing but it is get­ting much worst, dur­ing the time of writ­ing this arti­cle, eight peo­ple were killed and twenty oth­ers injured in a sui­cide attack car­ried out by a woman,…

Al-Maliki’s posi­tion from the Amer­i­can with­drawal is to delude the inter­na­tional and the regional com­mu­nity with mes­sage that secu­rity is improv­ing or sta­ble, while the Iraqi peo­ple at home can see the real secu­rity situation.

The writer added that the Maliki is play­ing a “nation­al­ism” game to save his own Dawa Party and also to dis­tance him­self from other Shi­ites polit­i­cal blocs [Supreme Coun­cil].

On the Amer­i­can level — A tac­ti­cal posi­tion from the fact that the cur­rent U.S. admin­is­tra­tion in its last months can’t take seri­ous mea­sures to remove Maliki from office.…

.….Gam­bles on a hot can­di­date [Obama] to win the U.S. pres­i­den­tial elec­tions in order to main­tain his posi­tion as long as pos­si­ble, rec­og­niz­ing that U.S. forces will not with­draw before two years.