What exactly paralyzation would prevent the Iraqi government from doing is unclear

The National Intelligence Council's new National Intelligence Estimate "Prospects for Iraq's Stability: Some Security Progress but Political Reconciliation Elusive" (August 2007) says Iraqi Prime Minster Jawad al-Maliki "will continue to benefit from recognition among Shia leaders that searching for a replacement could paralyze the government."

Comments

[Jonathan Versen]

I don't know the answer to your hypothetical question, but what I'm wondering is how many of them spent their summer break shopping for houses in Europe or the various gulf states.

[micah holmquist]

I would hate to have to pay their security bills.