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Article: With a whimper; The war's end.(The end of the war)(Iraq War)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- April 19, 2003
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The conflict is over. Now for the casus belli
LIKE the waving of the Stars and Stripes at statue-toppling ceremonies, declarations of victory are considered indecorous at the Pentagon. But the fact that many of the ships, submarines and warplanes that have been encircling Iraq from the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf and air bases across the region have started heading home to Britain and America says something about the tempo of "Operation Iraqi Freedom". With the fall of Tikrit, once considered Saddam Hussein's most likely Alamo, the second Gulf war ended in effect after just three-and-a-half weeks.
There is still fighting to be done. Those infamous "pockets ...