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What frustrates soldiers in Basra is that anti-[Blair] feeling at home leads to negative reports about their current mission. Major General Andrew Stewart, the departing British commander, told me: "The anti-war sentiment often seems to lead the media to want to just come here and pick faults in what's being done." A junior officer said: "Like it or lump it, we're in Iraq now and we're proud to be doing our best to do something positive while we're here."
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Blair's Survival Baffles the Soldiers
I watched a DVD of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 (a rather poor-quality pirate copy) in a tent in southern Iraq with the Br...
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