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...been helping bring peace to the countryside around Mahmudiya, a town 20 miles (30 km) south of Baghdad. As he leads his troops on patrol through a farming village, Zemp notes that less than six months ago, the area was prime insurgent territory and U.S. patrols routinely came under attack. On this April day, however, children poke their heads out of mud-brick doorways to wave, and two families even invite the troops to join in their modest midday meals. None of this would have been possible, Zemp says, without the efforts of the Iraqi army...
...Badr-dominated forces were "chomping at the bit to go after [the Mahdi Army]" in recent fighting. In areas where al-Sadr's militia dominates, many soldiers simply deserted, either out of loyalty to the cleric or out of fear. "Most of the officers are scared that if they attack the militias and the Mahdi Army today, they'll pay for it tomorrow," says a senior Interior Ministry official. "Power could flip, and the Mahdi Army could be in control. Then anyone who is fighting them now will end up in jail, accused of war crimes...
...think the team played so well,” Simmons added. “Our attack was really on. Natalie was amazing. Everyone played their hearts...
...Xavier, “We know we didn’t have the right kind of leadership” and went on to criticize President Bush’s personal actions following the disaster. Whereas in his role as a senior senator McCain had been reconciliatory and slow to attack other politicians, as a presidential candidate the rules seem to have changed. McCain now seems to believe that his straight talk refers more to the conviction of what he says at one time than to the consistency of his remarks. When in Washington, D.C., he can speak against only some...
...wonder how Moyers reacted when he saw the Reverend's smug, disdainful, outrageous-Obama's word-performance a few days later at the National Press Club. Wright refused to back away from his contention that AIDS was a government conspiracy, said that attacking him was an attack on the black church, refused to step away from Louis Farrakhan and again said of Sept. 11, "You cannot do terrorism on other people and expect it never to come back on you." Twenty years ago, the response of too many Moyers-era liberals would have been to try to understand Wright...