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Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said over the weekend that the Iraqi insurgency could drag on for as long as 12 years. But in a seemingly contradictory opinion Monday, Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said that two years would be "more than enough" time to establish security in his country. A year after the official handover of power in Iraq, what political and military progress has been made?

After a year of sovereignty, how much progress?

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