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When Gen. David Petraeus testified before Congress in April about Iraq, Democrats hammered what then seemed a botched Iraqi-government offensive against Shiite militias in Basra. They don't talk about Basra anymore. Iraqi security forces got their footing in the southern city and secured it--much to the relief of residents sick of the reign of gangs and religious extremists--and have since taken the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City in Baghdad as well. ...