All in all he'd rather not have the job

Well this is refreshing, an honest politician, or at least one who probably can see the handwriting on the wall.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has made no bones about it, he does not particularly enjoy being the country's leader and would prefer to leave the job before his term ends. A situation that probably wouldn't be too hard to have taken care of judging by the spasms of violence that wrack Iraq these days.

Maliki who was sworn in for a four year term last May, was a compromise decision after the original Shia leader nominated could not find favour with the other principles in Iraq at the moment. He's also run into to trouble with American officials, frequently butting heads with them over the direction of his government and the speed in which it is moving at.

Maliki who gave an interview to the Wall Street Journal recently, has expressed frustrations with the state of events in Iraq and has stated categorically that he won't accept a second term, while many fear that he won't have to worry about that anyways, as Iraq spins into what appears to be a rather violent Civil War.

In what is decidedly the anti-thesis to the term four more years, Maliki was quoted as saying, "I wish I could be done with it even before the end of this term.".

Many a politician devises an exit strategy when the time comes to leave politics, in Maliki's case one would imagine his involves a plane ticket and relocation assistance to more peaceful third party nation, one where going to work each doesn't require a phalanx of troops, bomb sniffing dogs and the distrust of your supposed partners.