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  • (Hiilary)Clinton: Insurgency in Iraq Is Failing(shocker--next pigs will fly)

    02/20/2005 11:36:04 PM PST · by The Loan Arranger · 41 replies · 1,406+ views
    The New York Post ^ | February 20, 2005 | TODD PITMAN
    BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- As 55 people died in Iraq on Saturday, the holiest day on the Shiite Muslim religious calendar, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said that much of Iraq was "functioning quite well" and that the rash of suicide attacks was a sign that the insurgency was failing. Clinton, a New York Democrat, said insurgents intent on destabilizing the country had failed to disrupt Iraq's landmark Jan. 30 elections. "The concerted effort to disrupt the elections was an abject failure. Not one polling place was shut down or overrun," Clinton told reporters inside the U.S.-protected Green Zone, a sprawling...