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Originally Posted by Rangermoore
They do not have the will to fight the insurgents that are STILL putting IED's out and killing Americans (4 today) and iraqis. Most of what I saw there was that they could not be trusted. Our own interpreter set off an IED on us as we were stoped on the road. (he met with an untimely and painful death) The so called iraqi police tried to ambush us as we rolled down the street, Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army are funded by iran and have been a pain in our ass since we got there. I had him in my sights in 2004 in Najaf and should have disobeyed the order and took him out.. But being the good American I just followed orders..Big mistake..
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The "insurgency" level is very low at this point in time and I will repeat that there is more and has been more violence in the US by far...every year of the Iraq conflict than there has been and currently is in Iraq. Iraq currently is a representative democracy and the overwhelming majority of Iraqi's apparently want a democracy and not a theocracy so they may very well make a major effort to keep it that way. Will there still be power plays...yes...as you still have some Bathists that would like to return to power and of course you have the built in conflicts between the Sunnis...Shites and the Kurds.