I must confess I didn't see it coming.

A revelation from Robert Grenier, a Former CIA station chief.  He is currently serves as a head of ERG partners, a financial consultancy firm.

The US has invested too much in Iraq to let Nouri al-Maliki tear the burgeoning democracy into pieces. This may put even more stress on Eurozone, as price on oil refuses to recede,- talking of double dip on crisis.

If crisis started in 2005, and we haven't seen a recovery yet,- allow me to remind you that crisis is a cyclic thing and happens every 8-9 years. You do the math.

More to read on: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/01/201211104749950522.html

US-groomed Iraqi Prime Minister talking to his "Big brother" Hussein.