As I've said before, this is the wrong question. The real question is whether Maliki will purge the police of Shiite militias or not. ( There's no more danger of Saddam being restored to power.) Now is the time for Maliki to make that move in the police. If he doesn't, he's squandered a great opportunity. If the Sunnis cannot trust the police, there will never be peace in Iraq (what's left of it, now that "Kurdistan" is de facto independent.)