Those numbers of Iraqis flocking back to Baghdad because of the improved security situation? Seems those numbers are being pumped and massaged like everything else. Not that people aren’t returning to Iraq because the levels of violence have dropped substantially — just a lot fewer than the Iraqi and American governments have been saying, and the American news media have been reporting.
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