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Originally Posted by detbuch
The Anbar awakening was fueled by our marine counter-insurgency which inspired even further Al-Qaeda stupid killings of Iraqis. The Iraqis in general and the Sunnis in particular, were "awakened" to the obvious fact that it was Al-Qaeda and the "insurgents" who were killing Iraqis and trying to destroy their elected government, and it was not Americans doing that killing and destruction. And the surge, in combination with embedding our troops with the locals, not in separate bivoucs, was absolutely essential to provide the confidence and security to allow that "awakening" to flourish.
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I see.
So if it were not for Americans killing Iraqi's so that Iraqi's would respond by killing Iraqi's that the Iraqi's wouldn't have come to the conclusion that it wasn't worthwhile to continue to kill Iraqi's?
It's a good think we invaded in the first place, otherwise the Sunni's wouldn't have had the motivation to stop attacking us!
-spence