http://www.mideastyouth.com/2009/04/15/iraqi-awakening-councils-final-count-dowen/ Thinking Ahead Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:46:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.mideastyouth.com/2009/04/15/iraqi-awakening-councils-final-count-dowen/#comment-22663 Norris Hall Sun, 03 May 2009 06:49:23 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/?p=3930#comment-22663 Now the fallacy of the "surge" is coming home to roost. 94,000 Sunni insurgents were bribed to help fight Al Quada and to stop shooting at US tropps. Their monthly bribed was paid for by the American government....300 dollars a month for each insurgent. Alll went well for a time. The violence went down and Al Quada was on the run. "the surge was working" Republicans boasted. But paying protection money is a double edged sword. It only works as long as the money is there. As soon as the Americans started turn everything over to the Iraqi government, the payments from the Americans stopped. And Sunni insugents are now shooting at American soldiers are back to shooting at Americans again. You can't win a war by paying your en...ot to shoot at you....unless you are willing to put them on a permanent payroll So much for the "surge worked' Now the fallacy of the “surge” is coming home to roost.
94,000 Sunni insurgents were bribed to help fight Al Quada and to stop shooting at US tropps.
Their monthly bribed was paid for by the American government….300 dollars a month for each insurgent.
Alll went well for a time. The violence went down and Al Quada was on the run.
“the surge was working” Republicans boasted.
But paying protection money is a double edged sword. It only works as long as the money is there. As soon as the Americans started turn everything over to the Iraqi government, the payments from the Americans stopped.
And Sunni insugents are now shooting at American soldiers are back to shooting at Americans again.
You can’t win a war by paying your en…ot to shoot at you….unless you are willing to put them on a permanent payroll
So much for the “surge worked’

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