Iraqi political resistance to the indefinite presence of U.S. troops is growing, limiting what the Maliki government can do and what the Bush administration can expect.
Political science professor Sabah al-Nasseri, a native of Basra, Iraq, now teaching at York University in Toronto, says the Iraqis “are instrumentalizing the internal resistance within the Iraqi Parliament, within the Iraqi societies, against the United States, against the presence of US troops in Iraq.”
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According to al-Nasseri, that means more Iraqi politicians are saying: "Look, we cannot signs all of these kind of agreements. Otherwise we'll commit political suicide."
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