AP: Sen. McCain Optimistic About Iraq's Future

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Sen. McCain Optimistic About Iraq's Future


Saturday March 25, 2006 1:01 PM

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By VANESSA ARRINGTON

Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Sen. John McCain emerged from a meeting with Iraq's president Saturday,
saying all Americans wanted the democratic experiment in Iraq to succeed and hoped politicians
here would quickly form a new government.

McCain, an Arizona Republican who backed the U.S.-invasion, headed a delegation that included
Sen. Russell Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat who opposed the war in Iraq. Feingold did not speak,
but nodded in agreement as McCain spoke about the future of Iraq.

"The American people, no matter what party they are associated with, want the experiment
of democracy to succeed," said McCain.

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Perhaps anticipating the meeting with the American delegation, Talabani on Friday issued
a highly optimistic report on progress toward hammering a new unity government.

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Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5710537,00.html

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1. Didn't they already form a new government?

How many new governments are they going to form?

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2. Can we spell Idiot???

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3. Going Great 70 + attacks per day

BAGHDAD -- The US military spokesman in Iraq asserted yesterday that major violence is largely confined to three of the country's 18 provinces, but fighting there raged on, with at least 58 people killed in execution-style slayings, bombings, and gunbattles.

For the third straight day, Sunni insurgents hit a major police and jail facility, this time with a suicide car bombing that killed 25 in central Baghdad. The attacker detonated his explosives at the entrance to the Interior Ministry Major Crimes unit in the Karradah district, killing 10 civilians and 15 policemen, authorities said.

As insurgent forces raised the stakes with the attacks, the US military announced late yesterday that it was in the second day of an operation with Iraqi soldiers ''to disrupt anti-Iraqi forces and to find and destroy terrorist caches in the Abu Ghraib area west of Baghdad."...

'There is not widespread violence across Iraq," Lynch said. ''There is not. Seventy-five percent of the attacks still take place in Baghdad, al-Anbar, or Salaheddin. And in the other 15 provinces, they all averaged less than six attacks a day, and 12 of those provinces averaged less than two attacks a day."

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