After months, Iraq's leaders are sworn in

Unity Government!
A new Oxy-moron.


The Washington Post
BAGHDAD - Iraq's new national unity government was sworn into office Tuesday, ending nine months of paralyzing political deadlock that at times had threatened to unravel Iraq's fragile new democracy.

A special gathering of the nation's parliament endorsed Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for a second term in office, with lawmakers then voting one by one for 31 of the eventual 42 ministers who will be in his cabinet...


"We should close the page of the past, and we should all work together," he said in an address to the parliamentary session. "We wish all success to this government."