Time for Maliki to go?

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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his government should be voted out of office by the country's parliament because he is incapable of bringing about political unity, U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin said.

Levin, a Michigan Democrat, said he made that assessment after a two-day trip to Iraq last week.

``I have reached the conclusion that this government is not going to be able to make the compromises so essential to ending the violence,'' Levin told reporters today in a conference call.

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