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For Iraq's Shiites, a Dream Deferred Breeds Mistrust of U.S.

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According to Hasan Suneid, a member of the Shiite Dawa party and a close aide to Maliki, "It means the base of [the Americans'] thinking is not stable. They are going to lose the Shiites. And they won't win the Sunnis back, because they attacked them at the beginning."

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