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...Marines and other U.S. units that fought their way to the heart of the city street by street displayed mesmerizing combat capability, bringing to bear withering firepower from land and air against which the those insurgents who stood and fought had no chance of surviving. U.S. forces retook the city at a cost of 38 casualties against the upward of 1,000 insurgents they claim to have killed. The number of civilian casualties remains unknown - the U.S. military and Iraqi interim government insists the number is negligible, but media sources suggest there may have been substantial numbers of Iraqi civilians...
...Iraqi security forces. And the tactics that the insurgents employed in and around Fallujah suggest there's good reason to suspect they are likely to begin reentering the city along with the returning civilian population, resuming attacks on Iraqi and any U.S. forces that remain once the main combat force begins withdrawing...
...Rather than ending major combat operations against the insurgency, the victory at Fallujah will likely see their focus shift elsewhere - to Mosul, Ramadi and other new flashpoints. And while counterinsurgency operations will likely to continue for months ahead, both before and after January, the election date now makes the political battle for Sunni hearts and minds, rendered ever more challenging by the fact of ongoing combat, a race against the clock...
...life member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Kerry reminded the crowd at its national convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Aug. 18 that he was "a combat veteran who has walked in your shoes." Kerry's reception was no better than lukewarm--a sharp contrast to the enthusiasm that had greeted Bush there only two days before. During the 35 minutes Kerry spoke of keeping faith with all the experiences and values that combat veterans shared--mentioning his military service no fewer than two dozen times--two members of the graying Massachusetts delegation stood at attention, with their backs...
...know something else. "You're the only Democrat who's been elected twice since F.D.R.," he told the ex-President. No one had been so tested as Clinton's team when it came to digging themselves out of a crater, and Kerry had already recruited some of the most combat-hardened of them out of retirement--former White House press secretaries Joe Lockhart and Mike McCurry, ex-Clinton aides Joel Johnson and Doug Sosnik, and Hillary's old chief of staff Howard Wolfson. Almost from the moment they arrived, Kerry's operation showed a new edge and agility. Less than...