daniel levy, hisham melhem, thank you both. >> lehrer: and again to the latest on iraq from margaret warner. she reports from baghdad on iraq's political stalemate. >> warner: the book market along baghdad's mutanabi street is a reminder of the city's faded past, where students hawk pamphlets, intellectuals look for their favorite authors, and the chattering class gathers to chew over politics. the humvee at the entrance is a reminder of the car bomb that ripped through the market in 2007 next to the stall of bookseller munaf fadel. he says the terrorists were targeting baghdad's educated elite. every day, he worries, it will happen again, and he blames iraq's leaders. >> ( translated ): i have to emphasize, there's no government, therefore there's no security. stability depends on the government's ability to enforce the law. we don't have a government, so we don't have security. >> warner: naiem mahdi al- shatri, who's been selling books here for more than 50 years, can't understand how a civilization that brought written language to the world has spawned such unworthy leaders. >> (