[QUOTE=DieselAddict;1960385]Nonsense. If Bush had listened to Gen. Shinzeki's advice before the invasion to send half a million troops to secure the peace, there wouldn't have been this mess to begin with.[QUOTE]
That could be true. Pity Bush didn't evidently think he would have the backing of the US populace to send in that number of troops. Remember all the talk of this not being another Vietnam? Of this being an in and out operation? etc. That could be what comes of dealing with a population percieved to be without the necessary backbone for the fight.
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And the surge worked primarily because Al-Sadr disappeared
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He didn't dissappear. There are sources that claim he was getting creamed by the strenghtening US and Iraqi military forces and that's the reason he told his mob to stand down. This from CNN. No doubt time will tell.
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and Sunni jihadists had started turning against Al-Qaeda.
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Was that not the whole point to begin with?
- Peter.
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