August 20, 2007 (LPAC)--Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Carl Levin (D-MI), resting in Tel Aviv, Israel, after spending two days in Iraq and one in Jordan with Sen. John Warner (R-VA), is calling for the ouster or Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki. He told reporters on a conference call this afternoon, that the Maliki government's failure to achieve a political settlement that will reduce the violence in Iraq, reinforces the "widely held" view that it is nonfunctional. Therefore, "I hope the Iraqi assembly, when it reconvenes in a few weeks, will vote the Maliki government out, and will have the wisdom to replace it with a less sectarian and more unifying prime minister and government."

"In a stop on his way back to the U.S., Senator Levin made an appearance on Israeli unreality television," was Lyndon LaRouche's summary.