Bush and Maliki - Two Peas in a Pod

Sorry, I couldn't resist posting this photo. It's from the cover story, by Patrick Graham, in the Canadian magazine MACLEANS. The title of the article is How George Bush became the new Saddam. Graham comments on how the Maliki government in Iraq has the same political goals of G.W. Bush and Karl Rove's vision for the Republican party in the USA.

Maliki has been accused of running an “ethno-sectarian” government, but accusing him of running a pro-Shia government is like accusing Bush of running a pro-Republican administration. Like Karl Rove, who hoped to make the Republican party supreme, Maliki seems to want to set up Shia-dominated rule that will control Iraq for generations. And like Rove, he focuses on his base, with little regard for any other point of view unless the U.S. pressures him (even then he pouts and makes vague threats about looking for other allies—by which he obviously means Iran).

Who would have ever thought that a government madeup of the majority Shia would want to concentrate power in the hands of the Shia?