The Battle For Baghdad
For U.S. Troops, this may be the last chance to head off a full-blown civil war. There's a plan, but will it work?
By Linda Robinson
Posted 8/27/06
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The alternative, championed by opponents of the war, is to set a deadline for pulling out troops.
Between the two stark alternatives, however, another possibility exists. According to officials in the trenches of America's grinding war, there is still time to make significant changes in resources and manpower to achieve the key political, economic, and security goals of the strategy. But not much. Citing Ulysses Grant in the darkest days of the Civil War, one senior official said, "It's time for 2-o'-clock-in-the-morning courage on our part and the Iraqis' part."
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