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Awakening on the Wrong Side of the BedPosted on Mar 30, 2009
The Awakening movement isn’t very happy these days. The U.S. has been paying Sunni militants to turn their guns from American soldiers to al-Qaida foreign fighters, a program that has been celebrated for reducing violence in Iraq and is now falling apart. In the words of one Sunni leader who spoke to NPR, “The Americans completely abandoned us.”
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By msgmi, March 31 at 7:59 pm #
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The power struggle between the Sunni and the Shiite is an ongoing process irrespective of our military presence. It is their future that moves them, not the outside forces.
Report thisBy mmadden, March 31 at 1:13 pm #
I guess the US has decided to no longer give out $300 a month to each Sunni militant. Too bad that our troops are still in harms way. We need to pull out before it gets too hard to withdraw.
Report thisBy dihey, March 31 at 9:11 am #
“The Americans have completely abandoned us”.
Report thisTranslation: “they are no longer paying us to kill El Qaeda persons”. “How are we going to feed our families”?
By lester333, March 31 at 8:04 am #
The Bush presidency is absolutely the worst failure in history. How come the media never reported the truth about ““The Surge”. Progressives have always known through web sites like this one and “CounterPunch.Org” and many others, that the McCain/Bush farce was simply a pay off? Pitiful and pathetic. Thank goodness we now have a president that is, at least, a little on the moral and rational side.
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