FORT JACKSON, S.C. (Reuters) - Issuing an upbeat new assessment of an unpopular war in Iraq, President George W. Bush hailed reduced violence and declining U.S. casualties as signs that a troop buildup was working.
"With our help, the Iraqi people are ... confronting the terrorists and they're taking their country back," Bush said in his most detailed Iraq update since announcing in September that improved security would allow limited troop cuts.
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