Just amazing....thanks...adding to the pinging blitz...
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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. At the same time, Iraqi and U.S. forces have pushed forward with a long-promised offensive in Mosul, the last urban refuge of al-Qaeda... the rapidly improving conditions should allow U.S. commanders to make some welcome adjustments -- and it ought to mandate an already-overdue rethinking by the "this-war-is-lost" caucus in Washington, including Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).Thanks Ernest. Of course, the partisan media shills will avoid coverage of this, and no one that I've noticed has called the miserable Party of Treason on their continuing anti-American screed. It's pretty easy to compose the question -- "given the fact that the Iraqi forces and US forces have eliminated 99 per cent of the terrorist threats in Iraq, how do you justify saying that the war is lost, that this is a losing effort?"