Courtesy CNN:
Powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is threatening to withdraw support from Iraq’s government if Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki meets President Bush next week, an al-Sadr representative said Friday.
Such a move could jeopardize the stability of the administration of al-Maliki who has relied on the support of both the United States and his fellow Shiites.
Basically, Iraq is either a civil war, or a civil war waiting to happen.  Things couldn’t be going much worse, although not everybody’s not dead yet.  For things to be worse, there’d have to be open …