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Down with Barriers, Up with Iraq

Victory Caucus -- All Content found this 11/25/2008 on michaelyon-online.com

On November 13th I covered a mission in south Baghdad with soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division. General Petraeus once told me during the height of the fighting, back when violence was the lingua franca and victory was very much in question, that this area was the canary in the mineshaft.  ...