Bush's Iraq puppet takes credit for averting civil war that Bush tried to incite

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told lawmakers on Monday his government had stopped Iraq sliding into civil war and said violence in and around Baghdad had plunged under a U.S.-backed security crackdown.

Maliki spoke in a formal address to parliament hours before American officials were to deliver a vital progress report on Iraq that could influence future U.S. strategy.

He said security gains had been made across Iraq, but added that his forces needed more time to take over full security responsibility from U.S.-led foreign soldiers.

U.S. President George W. Bush is under mounting pressure to withdraw some troops after more than four years of war in which over 3,700 U.S. soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed and millions have fled their homes.

Bush's top officials in Iraq, military commander General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, will give their assessment later on Monday to the Democrat-controlled Congress on the president's decision to send 30,000 extra troops to Iraq.

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1. All the Pieces on the Chessboard

All the pieces on the chessboard have been moved by the administration. Petraeus was moved to connect Iraq to Iran and using all of it to encourage a continuation of the "surge". al-Maliki was told to give his piece on how civil war has been "prevented", which is essentially what Americans feared we had caused, how the "surge" or a U.S. security crackdown has saved Iraq, and how U.S. soldiers can't leave now because the Iraqi forces aren't "ready".

Semantics and logistics need to be discussed and one must ask what is "ready", what is this "crackdown", and what is Iran really doing.

For the future of America rests on this nation figuring out what exactly is going on. In all of this fabricated media blather we Americans are getting, what are the policymakers and people directly involved in future action doing? And why isn't our Congress not speaking up more for peace?

Don't just attribute lack of courage in Congress to weakness. What has created the weakness? Why is Dennis Kucinich the only man standing up and speaking out about a hydrocarbon act to privatize oil in Iraq and why is he the only man voting against all measures involving Iran?

Drop the presidential election and who will or who won't win. Why is he constantly sticking his neck out for Americans and still getting no respect from a significant majority of Americans? He's fighting to save our country, goddammit! People wake up!