I READ THE NEWS TODAY, OH BOY . . .Very, very bad newshttp://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2007_06_17.php#014725[Josh Marshall] The Post has a fascinating and very sobering article about the Maliki government . . . It describes the centrifugal forces pulling away at the Iraqi state which have the Maliki government bobbling between impotence and irrelevance.http://www.washingtonpost.com/