[Steve_Seattle]

The attacks are not likely to go away anytime soon, but they should taper off over the next few months as more of the dead-enders and their weapons caches are taken out of circulation.

[epluribus_2]

and as the summer heat subsides, patrols will be more efficient and better defended, IMHO. By fall the average Iraqi will NOT be wistfully remembering the good old Baathist days but will be thinking about how to make money in the New Iraq. That phrase probably will just BURN liberals.