Dead Iraqis piling up by the hundreds and Bush says Iraq crackdown “meeting expectations”

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http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2007/April/theworld_April517.xml§ion=theworld

EAST GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan - US President George W. Bush said on Friday it was too soon to judge a US-led security push in Iraq, but stressed already “the direction of the fight is beginning to shift.”

“There are still horrific attacks in Iraq, such as the bombings in Baghdad on Wednesday, but the direction of the fight is beginning to shift,” Bush said in a speech two days after those attacks killed more than 200 people.

The US commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, “reports that it will be later this year before we can judge the potential for success, but the first indications are beginning to emerge.”

“And they show that so far, the operation is meeting expectations,” said the US president, whose poll numbers have slumped in large part because of the unpopular war, which roughly half the US public says is already lost.

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1. Apparently his expectation was to pile up dead Iraqis.