More than 4,000 Americans and an estimated 115,000 Iraqis died in the invasion and the years of insurgency and sectarian warfare that followed . Iraq is `` going toward a dictatorship '' under al-Maliki , his deputy says . `` This is going to be a disaster , '' he said in an interview with the BBC on Sunday. He said he was `` shocked '' to hear al-Maliki praised in Washington .
Iraq is `` going toward a dictatorship '' under al-Maliki , his deputy says . `` This is going to be a disaster , '' he said in an interview with the BBC on Sunday. He said he was `` shocked '' to hear al-Maliki praised in Washington .