Maliki and his "friends" are unhappy with Petraeus

From the Athenaeum (a couple of very interesting downloads) , read it here

"The Maliki government exists by the courtesy of neocon influence on US policy for the purpose of giving the Shia religious urban crowd political power in Iraq. That policy has failed. The Shia are clearly not capable of making effective the authority given to them by "one man, one vote" based elections. They probably will never be capable of making their authority effective in the parts of the country dominated by Sunni Arabs. To put it bluntly. They don't have "the juice.""