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Fallin says American involvement in Iraq not 'open-ended'

 
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Rep. Mary Fallin said Monday there is "still a lot of work to be done" in Iraq and that Americans are running out of patience with the conflict that is now more than four years old.

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Fallin, R-Okla., traveled to Iraq for the first time over the weekend on a two-day "whirlwind trip" of the Iraqi cities of Baghdad and Ramadi as part of a delegation of six freshman members of Congress that included Democrat Keith Ellison of Minnesota, the only Muslim member of Congress.

Fallin, a three-term Oklahoma lieutenant governor who was elected to the 5th Congressional District last fall, said she was "pleasantly surprised by the progress we've been making in Iraq" and believes that President Bush's troop increase is helping to bring more order to the country.

"That's not to say that everything's fine, that everything's settled," said Fallin, a stalwart supporter of Bush's Iraq policies. "Many times we get the picture back in the United States that it's a lost cause, that's there's no reason to be there .

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