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This new evidence suggests Iraq is manageable. If the small number of militants conducting murder and sabotage inside the country can gradually be eliminated by American troops (which is happening amidst stage two of the war),then the mass of citizens living along the Tigris-Euphrates valley are likely to make reasonably sensible use of their new freedom. "We will not forget it was the U.S. soldiers who liberated us from Saddam," said Abid Alian auto repair shop owner in Sadr City recently.
In other words, we're making headway in a benighted part of the world--if we will just hang in there.
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8 What Iraqis Really Think [Important. First serious int'l survey of the Iraqi people] ~ Wall Street Journal via Frontpagemag.com | 9/10/03 | Karl Zinsmeister
mystery-ak's hero hubby Sgt. Mike, just back from Iraq on leave:
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