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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (377115)4/9/2008 1:07:36 AM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1578122
 
"But the badly coordinated push into Basra unleashed a new barrage of attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces and led to open fighting between Shiite militias. New figures compiled by the U.S. military showed a sharp rise in attacks on civilians and military targets in March, reflecting numerous indications that violence across Iraq has begun to rise again after months of gains in the aftermath of a U.S. troop increase.

The statistics threaten to reignite public concern about the cost of the war, just as the highest-ranking U.S. military commander, General David Petraeus, and the senior U.S. diplomat in Iraq, Ambassador Ryan Crocker, were to testify before Congress on Tuesday.

The assault on the Mahdi army has also eroded Maliki's credibility with a large segment of the public that fears the militia that Sadr leads but also sees him as a legitimate champion of their interests. In Iraq, where perceived power is a key to real authority, the Mahdi army is seen to have stopped Maliki's Basra assault cold then melted away when Sadr ordered them to lay down their arms.

Against what seemed to be long odds as Maliki's assault in Basra foundered against Mahdi resistance and Baghdad's Green Zone was pounded with rockets fired from the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, the prime minister has been freshly embraced by several Shiite, Kurdish and even Sunni blocs who at times mainly seemed to support him because there was no obvious alternative.

But while some senior Iraqi officials see those developments as a help in efforts to promote political reconciliation, many Iraqis take a less nuanced view. In those terms, in the past few weeks, Maliki has cemented his reputation among his enemies as a tool of the Americans."

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