Posted on 07/18/2004 4:56:48 AM PDT by Flavius
ARTICLE TOOLS Email This Article E-Mail This Article Printer Friendly Format Printer-Friendly Format Most E-mailed Articles Most E-Mailed Articles Reprints & Permissions Reprints & Permissions Single Page Format Single-Page Format
The Reach of War Go to Complete Coverage
TIMES NEWS TRACKER
Topics Alerts Iraq
Armament, Defense and Military Forces
United States International Relations
Lynsey Addario for The New York Times While on patrol last week, Iraqi soldiers paused to speak with an Iraqi woman south of Baghdad.
BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 17 — Gradually, ever so imperceptibly, the ground is beginning to shift.
The legions of American soldiers who not so long ago erected checkpoints and roared across the capital, guns pointed out of their Humvees, have diminished.
In their place, Iraqi officers are manning checkpoints and swooping down on suspected criminal gangs. Led by their American counterparts, Iraqi soldiers are combing through palm groves in search of weapons caches. One vanguard unit of the new Iraqi Army, known as the Iraqi Intervention Force, is allowed to patrol the streets without Americans.
More and more, the public face of security here is Iraqi.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Good news - and in the Slimes no less.
yes i think hell has officially frozen
The Times Ombudsman will be all over this.
To us, the gist of this story is quite positive, but the Times manages to paint as negative a picture as possible: The American soldiers are coarse, heavy-handed, culturally insentive bunglers who are deeply resented by the long-suffering Iraqis.
You know the rules about not changing the title.
The demo-commies are so unhappy, they want America to fall. Kerry and crowd would create a communist Utopia. The elitist would delve out drippings to the poor sheeple.The thought police would be rounding up those traitors;(christians)(good men/women)(any dissenting voices)(of course all ex-military/law enforcement personnel with an opposing view). Success in America, or any other free country is a slap in their face." God Loves The Infantry." Bush/Cheney 2004.
actually no, but now yes
thanks
Ok ;)
LOL.
At least in a subsequent story SOON forthcoming.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.