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Default U.S. says Iraq forces could control provinces this year

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Iraq's army and police could be ready to take over security in all 18 provinces by the end of this year as the U.S. military moves toward a less prominent role in the country, U.S. officials said on Thursday.

"We look at it every month. We make recommendations. I think that if we continue along the path we're on now, we'll be able to do that by the end of 2008," Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno, the No. 2 commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, said when asked when Iraqi forces could take the lead in all provinces.

He said that a joint operation under way led by Iraqi troops and supported by U.S. troops against al Qaeda militants in the northern city of Mosul was a model for the future.

"That's how I see our role frankly in the future here," he told Pentagon reporters via videolink from Baghdad.

Iraqi security forces are now in control of nine provinces after assuming control of Iraqi's southern oil hub, Basra, in December. Iraqi forces are also expected to take control in Anbar province, a one-time insurgent stronghold, as early as March.

The ability of Iraqi forces to take the lead in security operations is vital to President George W. Bush's plan to withdraw 20,000 U.S. troops by the middle of this year.

The troops were sent to Iraq last year in a bid to quell sectarian violence in a war now in its sixth year. With U.S. troop levels up to about 155,000 now, violence levels have since dropped sharply.
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Proof of the success the SURGE has had as well as the undeniable progresss being made in Iraq just keeps on coming.








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The surge would have been improved 100% if we had the ability to focus on it, but instead we like to play footsies with the enemy for a while, to try to understand how they "feel", I'd say the only real proof you need is this...


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You know Iraqs going well when....



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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Apparent gaps in White House e-mail archives coincide with dates in late 2003 and early 2004 when the administration was struggling to deal with the CIA leak investigation and the possibility of a congressional probe into Iraq intelligence failures.

The gaps - 473 days over a period of 20 months - are cited in a chart prepared by White House computer technicians and shared in September with the House Reform and Government Oversight Committee, which has been looking into reports of missing e-mail.

Among the times for which e-mail may not have been archived from Vice President Dick Cheney's office are four days in early October 2003, just as a federal probe was beginning into the leak of Valerie Plame's CIA identity, an inquiry that eventually ensnared Cheney's chief of staff.

Contents of the chart - which the White House now disputes - were disclosed Thursday by Rep. Henry Waxman, a California Democrat who chairs the House committee, as he announced plans for a Feb. 15 hearing.

Waxman said he decided to release details from the White House-prepared chart after presidential spokesman Tony Fratto declared "we have absolutely no reason to believe that any e-mails are missing."
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Waxman arises with some of the usual Dead Horse...
they even threw in Plame...



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Default Just too funny

You show a cartoon about someone with their head in the sand.

Then in the same thread you ignore illegal activities from your beloved president, actually citing the investigation of deliberate lawbreaking to hide even worse activities by this administration as some *proof* that Iraq is doing well.


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Yeah thats it..it has nothing to do with it being Waxman investigation number 5 billion and 1.
...or god forbid the poltical reality of the Democrats intentionally ignoring Iraq and using anything like another one of these usuals to do so.








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actually citing the investigation of deliberate lawbreaking to hide even worse activities by this administration as some *proof* that Iraq is doing well.
I never said any such thing.



BTW "we always wanted success in Iraq"..how many soldiers died while you lied?
You can call me a warmonger or whatever cutsey lines you want...its rude to others for me to call you what a person who does that is.

I'll just keep posting on Iraq with links and such usually to relevant information on what I'm saying ..Oh and you can bet I'l rub salt in the far left/Democrats wounds. You just keep bashing Bush, saying everythings a failure and citing air......

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Default It's unbelievable

You must be a republican, because the irrational delusions are unbelievable;

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"you know Iraq is going well when" and then you cite the waxman investigation

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actually citing the investigation of deliberate lawbreaking to hide even worse activities by this administration as some *proof* that Iraq is doing well.

"I never said any such thing."


But then again, I don't expect logic from your posts.

P.S. The left/democrats or whatever have no wounds for you to rub anything in. And I will keep bashing the incredible failure of Bush. And you can keep your head where it is, and try to claim a war based upon intentional lies that cost so many lives and so much money and has failed to fight terrorism or destroy WMD as claimed is a success.
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This surge should have never happened. If we wanted to win this war, eradicate the opposition, and get out as quickly as possible, we should have used the full force of the American military. I place considerable blame on Rumsfeld for trying to use as few men on the ground as possible.

He imagined a fast, light, and deadly military which is a fantastic goal, and one day, will most certainly be achieved, but today isn't it, and 2003 wasn't it either.
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This surge should have never happened. If we wanted to win this war, eradicate the opposition, and get out as quickly as possible, we should have used the full force of the American military. I place considerable blame on Rumsfeld for trying to use as few men on the ground as possible.
Unfortunately, Rumsfeld failed to realize our BIGGEST enemy, in the Iraq War...

...the Democratic Party of the United States.
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Unfortunately, Rumsfeld failed to realize our BIGGEST enemy, in the Iraq War...

...the Democratic Party of the United States.
Brilliant observation. I'm still trying to figure out what the democrats contribution to the war on terror has been, except to throw a 'wrench in the spokes' at every opportunity.
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Unfortunately, Rumsfeld failed to realize our BIGGEST enemy, in the Iraq War...

...the Democratic Party of the United States.
You must feel relieved after laying such a huge load. The biggest enemy in Iraq was the enormous amount of incompetence in managing the post war Iraq by this administration.

Croonyism. The people choosen were not choosen for their skills, but rather for their political affiliations and connections.

Ignorance. Flagerent mistakes like disbanding the Iraqi Army, which the state department had argued against.

Unsubstanciated. This is the most ignored by the right wing. When the reasons for war given turn out to be false. And the justifications given for the war are revealed to be cherry picked distortions of the truth, then there are consequences. The country has lost the moral high ground. People turn against you, even your allies. And the country does not support the war effort. It stuns me that right wingers always crone about how the war is not supported and those that don't support it are traitors and such. Get this through your thick heads, in order for the country to support a war and the sacrafice required, the cause needs to be just and the reasons given honest. When wars are entered with lies (WMD, Gulf of Tonkin) then the country will turn against the leaders who are murdering soldiers based upon flasehoods.

And yes it is murdering soldiers. For example, if someone is attacking me on the street with a gun, I can kill them in self defense. But if it is shown that I am lying and the person I killed was not attacking me, then it becomes murder. The fact that Iraq was not attacked in self defense, means that the war becomes unjustified. That is the biggest enemy of America in Iraq.
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