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...Much of the discussion of post-election challenges in Iraq has focused on bringing in the Sunnis, the majority of whom are expected to stay away from the polls on January 30. That's hardly surprising given the scale of the Sunni insurgency, which appears to grow despite the counterinsurgency efforts of 150,000 U.S. troops there. In the past month alone, as much as two thirds of the population has seen insurgent attacks in the districts in which they live; more than half of the population lives in districts that have seen attacks on average every third...
...strike rate of the insurgency in the run-up to the election suggests that despite such large-scale U.S. military operations as the recapture of Fallujah, Iraq's insurgency continues to grow in size, scale and momentum. Where the Bush administration once dismissed the insurgents as "Baathist bitter-enders" and "foreign terrorists" who would be crushed by the U.S. and its Iraqi allies, it is now more common for U.S. officers to admit they are unlikely to defeat the insurgency any time soon. Henry Kissinger once famously noted that while a counterinsurgency campaign wins only when by eliminating the insurgents...
...Meantime, the loss of 36 U.S. soldiers in a single day on Tuesday, including 31 aboard a helicopter that crashed in western Iraq, underscores the mounting cost of a combat mission whose demands on American lives and treasure continue to grow, with the Bush administration set to ask a deficit-wary Congress for a further $80 billion to finance...
...that the combination will rev up sales of Gillette's men's grooming line, particularly in markets like China, where P&G is strongly embedded, and Procter's business stands to gain from Gillette's formidable operations in countries like India and Brazil. "Together, P&G and Gillette could grow at levels neither of us could sustain on our own," Lafley told investors last week. Specifically, he and Kilts (who will stay on as a P&G vice chairman) pledged to squeeze $14 billion to $16 billion in "revenue and cost synergies" out of the firm...
...firms will pay out $200 billion this year, up 10%. And over the past five years, as stocks have fallen and then begun to recover, investors who put a steady $100 a month into the S&P 500 would have seen their total investment of $6,000 grow to about $6,800, although the market fell 11%, including dividends (see chart...