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AP:"Analysis:US now winning...war that seemed lost"

 
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:02 pm    Post subject: AP:"Analysis:US now winning...war that seemed lost" Reply with quote
Well, knock me over with a feather...THIS from AP?????!

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Analysis: US now winning Iraq war that seemed lost
By ROBERT BURNS and ROBERT H. REID
July 26, 2008

BAGHDAD (AP) — The United States is now winning the war that two years ago seemed lost.

Limited, sometimes sharp fighting and periodic terrorist bombings in Iraq are likely to continue, possibly for years. But the Iraqi government and the U.S. now are able to shift focus from mainly combat to mainly building the fragile beginnings of peace — a transition that many found almost unthinkable as recently as one year ago.

Despite the occasional bursts of violence, Iraq has reached the point where the insurgents, who once controlled whole cities, no longer have the clout to threaten the viability of the central government.

Associated Press - cont'd


I think I'll quit reading while I'm ahead...and I better check for my wallet.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 11:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
#1, there are some mutterings amongst the "experts" that this could simply be a ploy to lull us into a false sense of success and convince us to move most of the troops to Afghanistan, hope for an Obama victory, and then rush back in from their sanctuaries in Iran or come out of hiding after the election and pull a "TET"-type blitzkrieg with the backing of Iran. We know Obama would still be stuttering and stammering trying to figure out what happened until long after the coup was completed. Maybe someone with better contact with the action on the ground in Iraq knows whether this is possible or just more rumor mongering. Anything is possible with the enemy we face and Obama as POTUS/CIC.
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