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Couric's second report on CBS' Road Ahead looked at the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. She was not impressed. She ticked off the lack of an army and police force to provide security, the lack of an agreement on the distribution of oil revenues, its inability to provide basic services to citizens, and the boycott of al-Maliki by almost half of the members of his cabinet. Couric flat out contradicted a major talking point of the Bush Administration: this "national unity government is neither," by which she, presumably, meant it is neither national nor united. Perhaps it is not even the third thing--a government.
Andrew Tyndall 9/14/07 3:07:13 pm

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