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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Edit: And a belated thanks to hiredgun, always like to read your insight on all this.
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I agree....particularly with these observations:
2) Sadr sitting out - the Mahdi army has been in a unilateral ceasefire and has been sitting on the sidelines, for reasons that are not a hundred percent clear at this point. Most likely they are either tired and resource-limited and using the time to regroup, or they are waiting to see which way the political winds will blow. Or, perhaps, they are receiving orders from...
4) The completion of ethnic cleansing. Iraqi neighborhoods - particularly in urban areas like Baghdad that were once quite mixed - have been cleansed to a horrific degree. This is what most of the violence in the 2005-2006 period was about. Once these neighborhoods had been 'cleaned', the violence was likely to drop because many of the country's urban areas were now broken into little Sunni or Shia enclaves controlled by armed teenagers and thugs with makeshift checkpoints.
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
You didn't read the article, did you, just admit it.
Just buck it up and say 'yea things are a little better but...blah blah blah'.
IS it so damn hard for some of you to admit SOMETHING might be working in Iraq, it doesn't mean you have to support the war, just a little intellectual honesty.
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Nope...I havent read that article, but I am confident that I am as well read on developments in Iraq as you.
So where is the political progress that this surge was supposed to bring about?
Is it so damn hard to admit that political reconcilliation wont come about as a result of a continued US occupation?