It appears Bush's "few dead enders" in Iraq actually number around 80,000

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071225/wl_afp/iraqunrestbaiji

Suicide truck bomb kills 20 in northern Iraq

Tue Dec 25, 4:13 AM ET

TIKRIT, Iraq (AFP) - A suicide truck bomb attack against a Iraqi army checkpoint near the northern town of Baiji on Tuesday killed at least 20 people and wounded 80 others, a security official told AFP. snip

Around 80,000 Sunni Arabs who were former rebels and fought the US military alongside Al-Qaeda have now turned on the Islamist group in several volatile Sunni regions of Iraq.

Al-Qaeda in Iraq has vowed to launch attacks against groups such as Al-Sahwa -- or the Awakening -- in a bid to draw them back into the anti-American insurgency.

The US military pays around 300 dollars to each member of these Awakening councils, which have been a key factor in reducing violence across Iraq in the past few months.

[jimshoes]

1. We're paying the Iraqi's

not to kill us????
Pssst, hey administration, if we left Iraq they would stop killing us too.

[madokie]

2. so the surge must work no matter what the cost, 300 bucks

what a mess these warmongers have