In Safer and More Optimistic Iraq, Support for Democracy Climbs

Iraqis are significantly more optimistic about the future, less concerned about security and increasingly supportive of democracy, according to a new poll gauging Iraqis’ attitudes six years after the U.S.-led invasion...
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Iraqis fear U.S. pullout of volatile Mosul
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Grenades lie unattended next to a west Mosul bazaar. Garbage bags throughout the city are searched daily for bombs. (Snip) President Barack Obama is ending all American combat operations after August 2010.

The Iraqi security forces are not sure they'll be ready.

''If you don't have the Americans, this is not going to be good,''

said an Iraqi army captain who gave his name only as Ahmed...

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