RS21968
Iraq: Government Formation and Benchmarks
January 14, 2008
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Summary
The current government is the product of a U.S.-supported election process designed to produce a democracy, although many now believe it produced a sectarian government incapable of reconciling Iraq's communities. This sentiment has grown to the point where some believe that the United States should seek a decentralized Iraq with substantial autonomy for each community. The Administration says that, partly as a result of the 2007 U.S. "troop surge," it is seeing some political accommodation, most notably at local levels. See CRS Report RL31339, Iraq: Post-Saddam Governance and Security, by Kenneth Katzman.
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