Sunday, June 01, 2008

The Iraqi Upturn - washingtonpost.com

Imagine that, we could be  winning??  The shock!  The Shock!

The Iraqi Upturn - washingtonpost.com

The Iraqi Upturn

Don't look now, but the U.S.-backed government and army may be winning the war.

 

THERE'S BEEN a relative lull in news coverage and debate about Iraq in recent weeks -- which is odd, because May could turn out to have been one of the most important months of the war. While Washington's attention has been fixed elsewhere, military analysts have watched with astonishment as the Iraqi government and army have gained control for the first time of the port city of Basra and the sprawling Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, routing the Shiite militias that have ruled them for years and sending key militants scurrying to Iran.

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