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WASHINGTON, July 7, 2005 A little more than a year ago, the 2nd Battalion of the Iraqi Intervention Force made its way through the streets of Baghdad, Iraq, hunting insurgents. It was the fledgling army's first operational military patrol, backed up by a team of coalition military advisers. Iraqi army Maj. Abbas Jassim Jebir, then a company commander with the 2nd Battalion, told Iraqis while he was out on patrol that day, "There are more on the way just like us." Jebir's comments were prophetic. Today's Iraqi military is not the same as it was a year ago. And as...

NBC News and news services Updated: 6:14 p.m. ET Nov. 5, 2004 NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq - As U.S. jets pummeled targets in what residents of Fallujah called the strongest attacks in months, more than 10,000 U.S. troops had taken positions around the rebel-controlled city Friday, bolstering the U.S. Marine units expected to lead a joint Army-Marine assault. U.S. soldiers blocked key roads, while Iraq sealed a crossing into Syria and interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi warned that the “window is closing” for a settlement to avert the offensive. Residents reached by telephone said U.S. aircraft were striking targets in the...

"If we stop fighting the terrorists in Iraq, they would be free to plot and plan attacks elsewhere, in America and other free nations." –GeorgeW. Bush, Sept. 23, 2004 Today the U.S. is either a) witnessing one of the most brilliant military strategies in the war on terror, or b) experiencing yet another example of the "Law of Unintended Consequences."

Today is the first anniversary of the terrorist attack on America and, more significantly, of the day America said "enough" and decided to fight back. President George Bush has made it irrefutably clear that regardless of what others decide, America is going to retaliate. Finally - after years of being sniped at, ambushed and being on the receiving end. This is not a time for neutrality or fence-sitting - something the Canadian government prefers to action. We at the Sun are with the United States against terrorism. As all Canadians should be. From the moment of this atrocity a year...