LAT favors Iraqi puppet

In a front page piece this morning by Paul Richter, the LAT reports that the Bush administration is under growing pressure to replace the Maliki government in Iraq with one that does what the U. S. wants done. The piece is based on anonymous sources, which is common for the LAT. If the U. S. were to replace the current Iraqi government with another then the new government would be a puppet government and the Iraqi state would be a puppet state. Only the LAT would propose such a thing.