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Article: Iraq's Repairman; Mission impossible? David Petraeus is tasked with rebuilding Iraq's security forces. An up-close look at the only real exit plan the United States has--the man himself.(Interview)(Cover Story)(Biography)
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- Newsweek
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- July 5, 2004
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Byline: Rod Nordland, With John Barry in Washington and Tamara Lipper traveling with the president, Graphic reported by Babak Dehghanpisheh and Sarah Sennott, text by Andrew Romano
The doors have been taken off our Blackhawk helicopter to accommodate heavy machine guns, so there's a blast of 100-degree heat blowing in everyone's face at 100 miles an hour. The view below is not inspiring: dreary streets, concrete buildings, uncollected trash everywhere. Block after block of Baghdad slips by, rooftop laundry flapping wildly in the backwash of the chopper's rotor blades. Only a fool wouldn't consider the possibility of an Iraqi insurgent down there, armed with a ...