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The present lull in Iraqi violence means nothing
Sep 10 2008, Balbhadra Rana

The US government is trumpeting the fact that violence is going down in Iraq; that Bush’s ’surge’ has worked. The Iraqi government is boasting that the situation in the country has improved so much that those Iraqis who had fled from Iraq are...

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