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08-31-2007, 08:00 AM
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Good News from Iraq
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An American ‘martyr’ is being hailed in the Sunni Triangle for restoring peace to a town where soldiers now fight only water leaks.
He helped to convert Ramadi from one of Iraq’s deadliest cities into arguably the safest outside the semi-autonomous Kurdish north. This graveyard for hundreds of American soldiers, which a Marine Corps intelligence report wrote off as a lost cause just a year ago, is where the US military now takes visiting senators, and journalists such as myself, to show the progress it is making. Ramadi will be Exhibit A when General David Petraeus, the US commander in Iraq, appears before Congress in two weeks’ time to argue that the country as a whole should not be written off.
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How life returned to the streets in a showpiece city that drove out al-Qaeda - Times Online
Eventually the people will realise who they want to support, themselves and a peaceful existence or the senseless insane criminals who will kill them on a whim or a neighbours hearsay, is this the turning point in the war?
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