Mission Impossible: Iraq

Juan Cole 10/29/2010

Mission Impossible: Government Formation

Producer and screenwriter: The United States

Starring: Nuri al-Maliki, Iyad Allawi, Ammar al-Hakim, Salih al-Mutlak, Muqtada al-Sadr, Tariq al-Hashimi

Sound and Visual Effects: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan

(Someone sent me this by email, so I don’t know who the artist is and would be glad to add credits if informed of her or his identity. For those who haven’t been following Iraq, the poster refers to the inability to form a government since the March 7 elections. – JRIC)

Satire.

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page