Regards, Ivan
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Thanks for posting this Ivan. Folks can also juxtapose this article with another just posted on FR:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1741402/posts
"For this very reason, Ramadi is both a litmus test for the counterinsurgency effort in Iraq and a laboratory. If we can defeat the insurgent and terrorist forces here, there is no place we cannot defeat them. And from what I found, we are defeating them. It's painfully slow, and our men there are still dying in inordinate numbers from a broad variety of attacks. But a multitude of factors, . . . are destroying both the size and the mobility of the enemy. This time the rats are dying in place."
FYI
Do I sense that this could be a way in to get a way out. We do have some Amerians that do enjoy killing the bad guys. Let em have at it. Libs don't understand this is. I hope we never lose our resolve. Oh yes, the democrats are applying "group think" to the dumbed down Americans. They still lie through their teeth and don't even realize it. We can win this war. Semper Fi
Most of the people are now convinced that coalition forces are friends, and that the enemy is al-Qaeda,” the 35-year-old Sheikh claimed in his first face-to-face interview with a Western newspaper.