US ground troops, not just air strikes, were used to save the hapless Iraqi force. In an NPR interview yesterday Bush claimed the battle was proof that the Iraqis were doing well fighting on their own.
“I will tell you, though, that this fight is an indication of what is taking place, and that the Iraqis are beginning to take the lead…
So my first reaction on this report from the battlefield is that the Iraqis are beginning to show me something.”
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