CNN reports:
White House hopeful Barack Obama called the debate over the competency of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki a “distraction” Thursday, a day after rival Hillary Clinton called for the embattled leader’s removal.
“I think this is a distraction — this whole notion of ‘is Maliki the right guy?’” Obama told CNN’s Don Lemon. “We can replace Maliki with four, five other guys, but if the underlying political dynamic is not changing, then we will not see progress in Iraq.”
On Wednesday afternoon, Clinton, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released a statement calling for the ouster of the prime minister, saying, “The Maliki government is nonfunctional and cannot produce a political settlement, because it is too beholden to religious and sectarian leaders.”
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He’s exactly right.
