"No government can take on the living God and survive."

"No Government can survive by using the army against its own citizens."

By my calculations that means the government won't survive the vote.

Political experts agree that his Government will not survive its term, which was supposed to last until the end of 2000.

The new Government still must survive a crucial confidence vote this week.

For more than three decades, no elected government has survived beyond its third or fourth year.

Yet the government survived until March 1979 because it always managed to win any vote of confidence.

"For the insurgency to be successful, people have to believe the government can't survive," he said.

No democratic Iraqi government will long survive unless it maintains popular support.

Nonetheless, the immediate speculation here is whether his Government will survive.