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Captain Barreda, for one, believes that day is coming soon.

"The news seems to focus on this bomb blowing up and killing four people or that bomb blowing up and killing ten people, and, yeah, that's a part of what's happening here that people back home should know," Captain Barreda said. "But they should also know that Iraqi men and women are standing up here and getting things done for themselves and their future. Those people's stories should be told, too."

"We have good security and, God willing, will have a safe election that will give Iraq a solid structure to develop into something great," an election official who asked his name be withheld for security reasons, added in a flourish of Arabic. "That is the future we are all working towards."

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