Fine with Me, Dude

Maliki calls for US troops out by 2011. Is this a long term plot for revenge against the Sunnis?

Maybe.

I hope Saddam appreciates irony. Think of it. He pretended to hold WMDs because he feared Iranian revenge for his brutal treatment of Shiia. But precisely because he successfully feigned possession of WMDs, the United States took him down. History is very funny like that.