A Reuters report on Iraq today carries the ridiculous yet entirely accurate headline “Iraq gains are “reversible”: Petraeus.” Of course the gains are reversible, but that was hardly the key message Petraeus was delivering in his letter to the troops. But more interesting is that after reporting that–according to Petraeus and unchallenged by anyone–“the number of attacks in Iraq had fallen by 60 percent since June and the number of civilian deaths had fallen by 75 percent since a year ago,” the story adds this nugget:
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