Marine General: Anbar Getting Better

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Marine General: Anbar Getting Better
By ROBERT BURNS
AP Military Writer

April 9, 2007, 3:54 PM EDT

OVER THE ATLANTIC OCEAN -- The long U.S. effort to stabilize
western Iraq, a hotbed of the Sunni Arab insurgency, has reached
a turning point with new prospects for success, the top Marine
general said Monday.

"I think, in that area, we have turned the corner," Gen. James T.
Conway, commandant of the Marine Corps, said in an Associated
Press interview as he flew back to Washington after four days in
Iraq.

His assessment of Anbar province marks a sharp departure from
the view that prevailed for much of the past four years, a time
of deadly battles with the Sunni insurgency and of local alienation
from the Shiite-dominated national government in Baghdad.

-snip-

Conway also said in the in-flight interview that the Marine Corps
is studying how it could sustain into 2008 the higher troops levels
that President Bush ordered in January. He said it was likely that
five Marine Reserve infantry battalions that already have served
in Iraq would be remobilized and sent again.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-anbar-outlook,0,1523966.story

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Gen. Conway also says that the tide has shifted against al-Qaeda.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Oh no, we've 'turned the corner' yet again!! I think we're spinning in circles!

[theoldman]

2. The tide has certainly shifted. They went into hiding.

[saigon68]

3. The General, "Sees the Light at the End of the Tunnel"

LOL assClown

[daleo]

4. Turn a corner four times and you are going in the same direction

It's hard to believe they haven't abandoned this phrase yet. Someone should buy that man a Thesaurus.

[IsItJustMe]

5. Yeah, yeah, I know. And elephants fly right?