Analysis: US now winning Iraq war that seemed lost (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Sat, 07/26/2008 - 5:08pm

People shop at a marketplace in north Baghdad's Kazimiyah neighborhood Wednesday, July 23, 2008.<br /><br />Systematic sectarian killings have all but ended in the Iraqi capital, in large part because of tight security and a strategy of walling off neighborhoods purged of minorities in 2006.<br /><br />That has helped establish a sense of normalcy in the streets of the capital; people are expressing a new confidence in their own security forces, which in turn are exhibiting a newfound assertiveness with the insurgency largely in retreat.<br /><br />(AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - The United States is now winning the war that two years ago seemed lost.

Limited, sometimes sharp fighting and periodic terrorist bombings in Iraq are likely to continue, possibly for years.

But the Iraqi government and the U.S. now are able to shift focus from mainly combat to mainly building the fragile beginnings of peace — a transition that many found almost unthinkable as recently as one year ago.



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