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Surge = Bribes
Bribes work
When money stops, fighting starts again
So, did the surge work or was it the bribes that worked?
Exactly.
The media continually refuses to point out that 1) the "surge" is just bribery of those shooting at us, and 2) a major cause of the reduced sectarian violence is the fact that most of the neighborhoods have already been ethnically cleansed and walled-off by us.
What happens when we stop paying the Sunni fighters?
" We will not tolerate armed groups with blood on their hands" That should pretty much take care of all the PMG's like Balckwater, Triple Canopy and the others as well as the U.S military. That will leave Iraq to the Iraqi people. Then they can run their country as THEY see fit. It is about time. Good for them. Now if the Afghans will do the same then there will be no more loss of American life in that part of the World.
Oh, this is going to be fun.
"We fought the Americans for four years and we fought al-Qaida, too," said al-Safi, a former Iraqi army commando during Saddam Hussein's regime who fought in the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran war. "We are an experienced armed group. We are fully capable of bringing the house down."
There goes McCain's surge, perhaps.Or maybe our army will be called on to defend the Sunnis against the "legitimate" and "democratically elected" Iraqi forces?
This war has always been a fiasco, and it's better if this becomes glaringly apparent again before the election.
This, my friends, the effing surge working at its best.
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