Reading Resolution 1859

"For more than five years the Fadhil brothers have been writing about Iraq, through the good times and the bad times. Two years ago it looked like the multiple insurgencies just might rip Iraq apart, but thanks to General Petraeus's surge and the cooperation and help given by the Iraqi military and the Iraqi people, today those insurgencies -- both Al Qaeda and Sadr's militias -- have been defeated. The statistics speak for themselves. In the last several months, more American forces have died in non-hostile accidents than through hostile fire, and while there is still an occasional horrific suicide-bomber killing Iraqi civilians the fatalities remain at the lowest recorded.

Today, over at Iraq the Model, Omar and Mohammed Fadhil examine what Resolution 1859 means for Iraqis (New Iraq Emerges from Tyranny and War):"
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