This map shows how to save Iraq

It's just not a solution that the U.S. wants

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It's becoming increasingly clear what the moderate Sunnis who have been cheering ISIS's advance want. According to a report in Newsweek, prominent Sunni cleric Sheikh Ali Hatem al-Suleiman told John R. Maguire, a retired former CIA deputy station chief in Baghdad, that Sunnis are only using ISIS to get Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, out of office.

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