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Now (4/19/07):

Military planners have abandoned the idea that standing up Iraqi troops will enable American soldiers to start coming home soon and now believe that U.S. troops will have to defeat the insurgents and secure control of troubled provinces.

Now (4/26/07):

Army General David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, said the war there may get worse before it gets better…

Then (9/22/03)

[Interim Minister of Interior of Iraq and Senior Policy Advisor] Bernard Kerik: Basically, it stops and it starts to subside as the Iraqi forces stand up. You have to remember four months, five months ago, we started from zero. You now have more than 40,000 Iraqi police. You have a civil defense force that’s being put together, and you have an Iraqi military that’s being put together. Those things have to stand up and they have to be put in place. We also have to create an Iraqi intelligence service, and that is in the process now as we speak.

The bigger those numbers grow and the more enforcement there is, the lower the crime and the violence will be. But as we said, three, four months ago, it’s going to get worse before it gets better.

New talking points please.