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POPSMiddle East: So far so good for Iraq's Maliki By all accounts the war-weary US public welcomed the Casey initiative, meaning that more than half of the US troops in Iraq would soon be returning home. The US administration would be able to sell this retrenchment on the grounds that Iraq was ready to stand on its own, that Maliki's cabinet is in place, the insurgents are laying down their arms, and Zarqawi is dead. This after all, is what President George W Bush has been promising all along. As things stand, Maliki will have to make several strategic and highly important decisions in the weeks to come, if Casey's plan for partial and gradual withdrawal materializes. He will have to walk a tightrope between different political groups that seem to be united around him, at least for now. To do that, he needs to continue giving them what Churchill called for: Facts and Results. Sami Moubayed is a Syrian political analyst.
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