Nearly five months after parliamentary elections were held, Iraq is still without a government. Unfortunate as this may be, it is not entirely surprising because Iraq, seven years on from the 2003 war, is still a country in transition. Post-2003 Iraq is somewhat akin to post-1958 Iraq when Abdul Karim Qasim and other military conspirators overthrew a discredited (and British-backed) monarchic regime. As with Qasim's overthrow, the removal of the equally discredited but more brutal Saddam Hussain...
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