What does “Emergency blame game” on Iraq mean?
Solution 1:
Playing the blame game is a meeting where a group of people are confronted with a difficult situation and instead of working together to meet the challenge they organize themselves in an adversarial way and try to assign blame. It's a game because it's childish. It's also a game because there are winner and losers. The winners don't have to help to solve the problem because it's not their fault, the losers get blamed, and have the burden of solving the problem. Also blame and game rhymes, and rhyming or alliteration is always a good reason for coining a phrase in English.