Porkins Policy Review

The protest movement in western Iraq is intensifying by the day. The residents of the predominantly Sunni area of Iraq have been protesting now for months against the Shia government which they say is targeting them. It’s no surprise that the American media establishment has hardly reported on this; after all Maliki is our man in our great success story that is the “liberation” of Iraq. The American and western media is eager to portray the conquest of Iraq as a success story. Painting Maliki as an authoritarian criminal, in much he same vain as the man we ousted and executed, would hurt the image of “humanitarian intervention.” But I assure you the protest movement in Anbar Province is real and will continue to be a threat to Maliki’s dictatorial rule of Iraq.