Ethnic cleansing, not surge, key to drop in Iraq violence

[edhopper]

From Reuters;
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080919/sc_nm/iraq_lights_dc

Satellite images taken at night show heavily Sunni Arab neighborhoods of Baghdad began emptying before a U.S. troop surge in 2007, graphic evidence of ethnic cleansing that preceded a drop in violence, according to a report published on Friday.

No Sen McCain, the surge is not working. You lying, fascistic sack of dog excrement.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. Don't forget, too, that we started

paying them. After L. Paul Bremer's genius idea to break up the Iraqi army, there were only 400,000 pissed-off former Army members roaming the country. So, the UN started, in Anbar, paying off the "insurgents," and since this was received warmly by the "insurgents," it calmed things down.

All of this, of course, after the Sunnis were trashed.

[Muttocracy]

3. yes - and one more thing that's costing us $$$ in Iraq.

[Muttocracy]

2. that's what several witnesses said at the SFRC hearing Biden held in April...

right before Petraeus and Crocker got all the attention (along with Obama, Clinton, McCain).

Maybe the image evidence is new, but not the story.

[edhopper]

4. That's the point

this has been an ongoing story, but now it is verified. It was NOT the surge.

[Muttocracy]

5. I wonder how many years it will take Bush and McCain to acknowledge that - 10? 20? nt