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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (122009)12/24/2003 12:39:44 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Another excellent Times article by Burns:

Once Skeptical, Briton Sees Iraqi Success
By JOHN F. BURNS
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For the most part, he offered a view similar to that of American commanders, who have repeatedly said allied forces would prevail, laying the grounds for the democracy that President Bush says is his goal in Iraq.

But General Lamb also struck notes of gentle admonishment. At one point he said that drawing from his experience in conflicts elsewhere, it was "slightly simplistic" to use the declining number of daily attacks by insurgents as a measure of progress, because it measured only a part of the challenge facing the occupation forces.

American commanders often use the attacks as a kind of barometer. In November there were an average of 40 a day across Iraq, and as many as 55, with more than 80 American soldiers killed, half of them when their helicopters were downed.

That prompted American forces to shift briefly to an all-out offensive that employed aerial bombing for the first time since the invasion. After the Muslim holy month of Ramadan ended a month ago, the attacks fell to an average that American commanders have put at slightly fewer than 20 a day.

One American officer at General Lamb's news conference said the attacks had declined still further since the arrest of Mr. Hussein, with only six reported on Monday, which the officer described as "the lowest level since May."

...http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/24/international/middleeast/24IRAQ.html?hp

Let Carl put that into his pipe and smoke it.
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