What will Harry Reid say?

I believe I heard Bill Roggio, or perhaps someone else, discuss on a podcast that the Sunni tribesman were fed up with al-Qaida in Iraq a month or so ago.

Now even AP is taking notice...

U.S. troops battled al-Qaida in west Baghdad on Thursday after Sunni Arab residents challenged the militants and called for American help to end furious gunfire that kept students from final exams and forced people in the neighborhood to huddle indoors.

Backed by helicopter gunships, U.S. troops joined the two-day battle in the Amariyah district, according to a councilman and other residents of the Sunni district.

The fight reflects a trend that U.S. and Iraqi officials have been trumpeting recently to the west in Anbar province, once considered the heartland of the Sunni insurgency. Many Sunni tribes in the province have banded together to fight al-Qaida, claiming the terrorist group is more dangerous than American forces.

Of course Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)says we've already lost in Iraq.

Iraq is still a very violent place, and there is a lot of work, but we have not lost.

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