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Armed Sunnis in Iraq: potential short-term gains, long-term risks (AP) 07/03/07
BAGHDAD: The U.S. tactic of using armed Sunni tribesmen in the fight against al-Qaida in Iraq offers short-term gains to weaken the insurgency, but could set the stage for a full-scale sectarian civil war when the Americans begin to draw down their forces.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/03/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-Armed-Sunnis.php
So, schrub is using questionable tactics to make his "surge" look like it is working, knowing that these tactic is going to make things worse in the long run. Is this another one of ROVE'S carefully choreographed 'show' or a real new way out?
"Sarah, if the American people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation [America], we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." George Bush Sr, interview with Sarah McClendon in December 1992
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An excellent point. The bigger issue is whether or not Iraq should remain a single country at all. Civil war may testify to the painful reality that Iraq cannot sustain itself as a viable state, and that the various ethnic and religious communities do not share a true national identity. This is much more than a Shia-Sunni matter. The Kurds, if they could have their way, would be completely independent of Baghdad. And Iraq was never a country of its own in the past, anyway, since it was created by the British after WWI from the eastern flank of the Ottoman Turkish Empire.
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