2 Army Colonels Optimistic About Progress in Iraq

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The Pentagon this week put on display two hardened Army colonels whose messages provided both hope and unease about America's prospects of winning soon in Iraq.

Both Cols. H.R. McMaster and Robert Brown were upbeat about their soldiers' battlefield victories in northwest Iraq against concentrations of vicious foreign terrorists under the direction of Abu Musab Zarqawi. And they testified to a much improved Iraqi Security Forces. Iraqi troops must one day take on the lion's share of counterinsurgency missions if U.S. forces are to leave Iraq.

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2 Army Colonels Optimistic About Progress in Iraq

"We conducted very effective combat operations against the enemy, we being the Iraqi Security Forces and our forces," sa...

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