We sure Broke the Backs of the Insurgency

Naturally, this story comes from the foreign press -- waiting for a Freeper to tell me that the Australian Government and Press is a bunch of anti-Americans:

ROBERT Hill has learnt first-hand the new perils involved in visiting strife-torn Baghdad.

Such has been the escalation of violence in the run-up to the January 30 elections that for the first time in four visits, the Defence Minister could not make it to the centre of the Iraqi capital last Friday.

So dangerous has the main highway to and from the airport become, with daily suicide bomb attacks, he did not visit the Australian embassy or the Green Zone that comprises the headquarters of the US-led coalition forces in Iraq.

"This is the first time I've been unable to do that. It's very dangerous - a number of countries are no longer travelling along it," Senator Hill told The Australian yesterday

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"It's a more dangerous place than it's been since the downfall of Saddam's regime. The insurgency is really quite intensive and extensive."

Instead of making the hazardous run into the city, Senator Hill travelled in an armoured convoy to the US-run Camp Victory, a short distance from Baghdad airport.

Wonderful. I'm sure at that time he was told that things are going great in Baghdadgrad, Fallujahgrad, and Mosulgrad.