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Article: The way to win.(Iraq war)
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- National Review
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- September 15, 2008
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The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq, by Bing West (Random House, 448 pp., $28)
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A YEAR ago, the situation in Iraq looked bleak. The president had announced a "surge" in early 2007, fired his secretary of defense, and replaced the military leadership executing the operational strategy in Iraq, but--to many outside observers--the results by the summer appeared to be too little, too late. The American public, tired of the false optimism that had characterized so many earlier official statements, seemed to desire nothing less than the war's end.
But by the end of the year, security had improved ...
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