Robert Gates says there are early signs the surge is helping secure Baghdad, but there's a great reluctance to engage in "happy talk" about it.
Gee I wonder why?
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POSTED: 7:19 a.m. EDT, April 8, 2007
Explosion kills 15 civilians, wounds 26 others in Mahmudiya, near Baghdad
• Five civilians killed, 20 wounded in Baghdad by car bombs
• Bodies of six shepherds found near holy city of Karbala
• Four U.S.soldiers die in explosion near a military vehicle in northeast Iraq
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