American commanders question political will of Iraqi Prime Minister

Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki with Iran's Ahmadinejad on a visit earlier this month.

BAGHDAD, Sept. 27 -- Senior U.S. military commanders are questioning whether Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has the political will to weed out official corruption and tackle the brutal militias that are threatening to plunge Iraq into civil war.

"It's going to take time for a government to cleanse itself over time," said a senior U.S. military official who spoke on condition of anonymity at a briefing with reporters. "I've got to give it time to do that and hope that I have a prime minister that's going to take that on."

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