Kerry says we are there terrorizing wimmin and chillen and Dingy Harry says we already lost. This AP report is nothing by psy-ops propaganda
Oh, I agree. ;-)
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Several U.S. military officials here said the most important factor in reducing the violence in Amariyah was the U.S. troop increase, which quadrupled the number of U.S. military forces patrolling the neighborhood in mid-June.
Another key to progress, they say, was the formation in late May of a local anti-insurgent alliance, the Farsan al-Rafidayn, which in Arabic means “Knights of the Land of the Two Rivers.”