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News item: Four months after announcing troop reductions in Iraq, President Bush is now sending signals that the cuts may not continue past this summer...

News item: The U.S. military plans to boost the number of neighborhood outposts across the capital by more than 30 percent this year even as American forces begin to withdraw, the new commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad said Tuesday.

sounds like they're turning a corner

Iraq ready for "final" battle with al Qaeda: PM

could this be the corner we've been looking for?

Cheney: Iraq to be self-governing by 2009

dere is annudder corner directly around dis one (cont'd)

GOP leader: Transit logjam could go into January
(AP) — House Republican leader Tom Cross acknowledges it could take until January to work out a gambling expansion plan that would pay for a statewide construction program and pave the way for a mass-transit bailout.

Cross says he'd like something to happen next week but he can't promise anything will. He blames the political climate and personalities involved.

House Speaker Michael Madigan didn't attend a second day of meetings with Gov. Rod Blagojevich and the three other legislative leaders to break a logjam that has transit riders facing threatened service cuts and fare increases.

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"Have we turned a corner? It might be a little too early to say that," he said. "It's certainly encouraging."

finally, some good news

Al-Qaeda In Iraq Reported Crippled
Many Officials, However, Warn Of Its Resilience

By Thomas E. Ricks and Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, October 15, 2007; Page A01

The U.S. military believes it has dealt devastating and perhaps irreversible blows to al-Qaeda in Iraq in recent months, leading some generals to advocate a declaration of victory over the group, which the Bush administration has long described as the most lethal U.S. adversary in Iraq.

Does anyone have him?

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- In spring training 2005, Rick Ankiel launched his new career as a 26-year-old minor-league outfielder. In his first game back in the major leagues, he launched one out of the ballpark.
Ankiel's three-run homer capped a storybook return and Joel Pineiro worked seven scoreless innings in the St. Louis Cardinals' 5-0 victory over the San Diego Padres on Thursday night.
"Unbelievable," Ankiel said. "You almost can't put that into words."

Sarge, hurry!

Snowjobber: 2+2=5, s#i+ blowing up everywhere is peace, etc.

Q Let me follow on that, because I think some American officials have called this (Wednesday's s#i+-blowing-up of the Al-Askari mosque) an act of desperation. And I'm wondering how this is seen as an act of desperation. Does that mean that the terrorists are so concerned that they're sort of being shut down, and that the surge is so effective that they're now desperate to make a statement?

MR. SNOWJOB: Well, I think, again -- a couple of things. It does fit a pattern that we see throughout the region, which is that when you see things moving towards success, or when you see signs of success, that there are acts of violence. We saw that, certainly -- we've seen that in Lebanon, once again, today, tragically. We also saw it earlier in Lebanon. We have seen it on a number of occasions where, when Israel and the Palestinians seem to be getting close to a deal, there are kidnapings and acts of violence.

Two Year Anniversary

"I think they're in the last throes--if you will--of the insurgency."--Dick "Dick" (DICK!) Cheney, a TOTAL PHOKKING DICK and totally phokking wrong (cont'd)