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To: Sam who wrote (241492)	9/10/2007 10:54:03 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

There’s little evidence that Baghdad residents are feeling safer and returning to homes they’d fled, said Dana Graber Ladek of the International Organization for Migration, which tracks refugee movements. Of an estimated 1 million Iraqis who’ve fled their homes since February 2006, 83 percent are from Baghdad, the IOM says. Want a dire report on refugees, ask an NGO specializing in refugees. Even the BBC, who has bowed to no one in being relentlessly negative on everything, went out into Baghdad neighborhoods and asked a bunch of people - and found that things were much improved from earlier this year. Have things been getting worse since the beginning of the year, or better? She refuses to address that question. But that's the trick of the article, isn't it? Things are so far from stable that you can truthfully report that things aren't stable, and downplay any signs of progress, or claim that zero credit goes to the Americans or the government when it can't be denied altogether. No, no the Americans had nothing to do with Anbar, nothing at all. So why aren't those nationalistic Sunnis telling the Americans to get out of Anbar right now? I missed that bit. Maybe they have a different assessment.

To: Sam who wrote (241492)	9/11/2007 2:15:10 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

Petraeus' chart: powerlineblog.com According to the chart, attacks are decreasing sharply but are still higher than they were before the bombing of the Golden Dome of Samarra. However, the pertinent question isn't whether things are great in Iraq. The pertinent question is whether it is time to pull the plug and admit defeat. Seems crazy at a moment when the trendline is so sharply in our favor. At least it does to me. A number of Congresspeople with D's after their name seem so invested in the idea that the they have to claim that Petraeus is making it all up, though they haven't a shred of evidence. But they support they troops! Just not any member of the chain of command.