Not Gonna Work
Not halal.
Guess who else is not a big fan of Bush's surge of an escalation?
Al-Maliki's aides said disagreement remained between Bush and Iraqi officials on key issues.The Iraqi leader is uneasy about the possible introduction of more U.S. troops, and he has repeatedly refused U.S. demands to crush the militia of anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, one of the prime minister's most powerful backers.
Any serious drive to curb the extreme chaos and violence in the capital would put not only American forces but al-Maliki's Iraqi army in direct confrontation with al-Sadr's Mehdi Army.
. . .Sami al-Askari, an al-Maliki political adviser, told The Associated Press on Friday that al-Maliki had not acquiesced to the reported White House plan to send as many as 9,000 more U.S. troops to Baghdad alone.
"President Bush told the prime minister he was ready to send additional troops, but al-Maliki said he would have to talk that over with his senior military officers to see if they were needed," al-Askari said.