WSJ: 17 Aug 2007; "In Baghdad political leaders formed a fresh alliance to save the government, but it included no Sunnis".

As I've told Teribus for months, if not years, this approach will never work. Irony is there were reports some of the Anbar Sunnis now working with the Americans against al-Qaeda would be invited to join the government--but Maliki now says his government never intended this. That closes the last door to avoiding full-scale civil war.

Unless Maliki changes his mind on this point, his government is now doomed--by his own actions.