New Iraqi Leadership is a Sign the Country is Finally Stabilising, by Patrick Cockburn - The Unz Review
▻http://www.unz.com/pcockburn/new-iraqi-leadership-is-a-sign-the-country-is-finally-stabilising
The reduction in violence allowed [Iraqi] to focus on the mass theft of state resources under Dawa which has failed to improve, or even maintain, the infrastructure.