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nicholas, a fair comparison and a very reasonable question - the quagmire becomes ever more putrescent.

However, I find it difficult to accept that DL and now ZH are innocent pawns, as someone2104 suggests, in a bigger political game. Both are consumate players in the every-country-needs-one field. Neither is naive and neither is driven by altruism. Information in the public domain indicates that the ZH scheme for the Iraqi Parliament is, functionally, the poorest of the three placed schemes, so architecture is the loser in this particular game.

However, a new parliament is probably the least of the current Iraqi govt's worries right now...