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Despite the Fighting in Basra, Bush Emphasizes Progress
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Mar 28, 2008 03:52pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Friday, March 28, 2008 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 28, 2008; Page A15
DAYTON, Ohio, March 27 -- The images from Baghdad and Basra bristled with explosions, burning buildings, angry street protests, rocket smoke wafting from the Green Zone. The words from Dayton were "remarkable" and "victory" and "rebirth."
"Normalcy," President Bush said, "is returning back to Iraq."
The juxtaposition of image and sound crisply illustrated Bush's challenge in pleading for more patience from his own weary public for a war that has now surpassed five years and 4,000 American dead. Bush came here Thursday to make the case that Iraq has made impressive progress in political reconciliation in recent months even as his argument was overshadowed by the latest outbreak of violence.
Bush cast the battling in Basra not as a setback but as more fodder for optimism, a sign that Iraq's leaders were ready to challenge the militias that dominate the southern city with a tough security crackdown designed and led by the government's own forces. "The enemy will try to fill the TV screens with violence," the president said. "But the ultimate result will be this: Terrorists and extremists in Iraq will know they have no place in a free and democratic society." |
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