"Declaring the government of Iraq "non-functional," the influential chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said yesterday that Iraq's parliament should oust Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his cabinet if they are unable to forge a political compromise with rival factions in a matter of days." (First, don't you love the fact finding missions of US congresspeople? Graduate students travel to a country and spend a year or more to understand it. But not for the esteemed members of congress. They are able to understand a country on the basis of one day, or even two days (this trip was for THREE LONG DAYS but covered both Jordan AND Iraq) for an extensive fact-finding mission. Sen. Levin also called on the Iraqi puppet parliament to get him an order of curly fries NOW).