Maliki signals he’ll step aside peacefully, easing tensions in Baghdad

[jamzrockz]

9. Ah, another reminder that

The colonial master never really left. This is the same story in most African and ME countries where the west still call the shots. They dictate domestic policy via IMF and world bank and foreign policy via NATO and the US military.

I am guessing the picture of him sitting with the much hated Assad didn't go down too well with the western masters and continuing to all Iranian military supplies to Syria must have been the straw that broke the camels back. Good luck to the new puppet, I hope he doesn't try to go rogue like the last one.